First detected in 2015, gravitational waves may not have had a direct hand in human evolution, but it certainly helped set ...

In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious new object in our Milky Way, which is emitting X-rays and radio waves at the same time.

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

As gravitational wave detectors become more advanced, tracing their principles and history can engage undergraduate students with modern physics.

A research team led by Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

The discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration in 2015 confirmed a century-old prediction of Einstein ...

Relic Gravitons, by Massimo Giovannini of INFN Milan Bicocca, offers a timely and authoritative guide to one of the most ...

Scotland is at the heart of two of humanity’s most important and innovative space science missions” – Paul Bate, UK Space ...

LISA, a $1.6 billion gravitational wave observatory set to launch next decade, will revolutionize the way we see gravitational waves—the infinitesimal perturbations of spacetime first predicted ...

A study published in Physical Review Letters highlights new methods to detect the gravitational wave memory effect ... Data from the now-collapsed Arecibo Observatory continues to drive major ...