A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by ...

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 ...

Extreme cosmic events such as colliding black holes or the explosions of stars can cause ripples in spacetime, so-called gravitational waves. Their discovery opened a new window into the universe. To ...

Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

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

Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout". 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star ...

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 ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...