The proposed next generation of gravitational wave detectors will require hundreds of kilometers of ultrahigh vacuum beam ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

Similar to gravitational observatories on Earth, the laser light is the crucial component of the detector. Gravitational ...

Last week it was revealed that gravitational waves had been spotted for the first time. There’s only one problem – we don’t know exactly where they came from. What we do know is that this ...

With LISA, ESA plans to catch gravitational waves from space, using a triangle of spacecraft millions of kilometers apart—unlocking cosmic secrets we’ve never seen.

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are stellar-mass black holes, formed by collapsing stars, with masses between 5 ...

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation ...