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 ...

RICHLAND – The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 in ...

Stephen Hawking was immediately on the phone in 2015 when he learned that the Hanford LIGO observatory in Eastern Washington and its twin observatory in Louisiana had made the first-ever direct ...

Senate bill includes funding to keep both U.S. LIGO observatories operational. LIGO confirmed 300 gravitational wave events since Nobel-honored 2015 discovery. Sen. Murray worked to save LIGO by ...

LIGO Hanford detected record-setting black hole merger, challenging current knowledge. Merged black holes spun near general relativity’s limit, baffling scientists. Funding cuts threaten U.S.

Scientists believe if the Trump administration's proposed budget is approved, a Louisiana space observatory could be on the chopping block and see its scientific mission crippled. The Trump ...

Trump budget proposal seeks to close one of two U.S. LIGO observatories by 2026. LIGO facilities detected first gravitational waves and advanced multi-messenger astronomy. Proposed closure risks ...