Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called ...

Einstein imagined gravitational waves over a hundred years ago, but it wasn't until 2016 that technology finally caught up.

Researchers have developed an AI system capable of designing entirely new types of detectors for observing gravitational ...

Something unexpected has come to life in the great darkness of space. In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a ...

A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...

A distant massive black hole erupted to life, releasing record-breaking X-ray flares in a stunning cosmic event.

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called gravitational waves. Their ...

Astrophysicist Kip Thorne dared to dream of a machine to find gravitational waves ... hopefully to be joined in the future by an enormous detector operating in space, our ability to probe the ...