An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection ...

A sun-sized space detector called LISA is set to catch ripples from colliding black holes, giving scientists a brand-new way to explore the universe.

Sept. 14, 2015, was one of the most important days in science history. It marked the first-ever detection of gravitational waves, tiny ripples in space-time (the four-dimensional union of space and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Initially, scientists ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to ...

Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond. It ...

The 2026 budget request states that NSF will operate only one of the two LIGO sites, drastically reducing its cosmic listening ability. Reading time 3 minutes Nearly 10 years ago, scientists observed ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...