After a whirlwind tour of press conferences, parties and awards following their Feb. 11 announcement of the world’s first direct detection of gravitational waves, the team of scientists at the Laser ...

An artist's illustration of two colliding neutron stars. Collisions of massive objects in space like neutron stars and black holes ruffle the fabric of spacetime. These tiny distortions of space are ...

LIGO Hanford has a new partner in its search for gravitational waves created by violent events in space. Scientists are expecting the expanded network to lead to more detections of ripples through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that ...