The $1.6 billion mission is an extremely complicated engineering challenge and will make gravitational wave detections in ...

Yet one thing remains unchanged — dark matter was a mystery then, and it still is today. However, findings from a new study ...

The team added new limits to how dark matter could interact with the LIGO detector, boosting hopes for future runs.

A new study published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) proposes using gravitational wave detectors like LIGO to search for ...

A quantum sensing experiment now has the potential to identify single gravitons — the particles that make up gravity — which ...

A recent breakthrough led by Igor Pikovski, a physics professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, may soon allow scientists ...

The current generation of gravitational wave detectors could "hear" the explosive supernova collapse of dying stars over 65 million light years away.

Scientists have developed a new way of searching for elusive dark matter, which makes up 85% of all matter in the Universe, ...

A warp drive that is functioning normally, and travelling at a constant velocity, does not emit any gravitational waves. When ...

The two black holes are near the center of a galaxy shaped by the aftermath of a recent merger between two smaller galaxies.

In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) confirmed they made the first-ever detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These events occur when ...

A visiting astrophysicist on Monday brought the science of space to Manhattan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...