Long ago, in a galaxy far away, two black holes danced around each other, drawing ever closer until they ended in a cosmic collision that sent ripples through the fabric of spacetime. On September 14, ...

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten ...

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Could it be that the universe’s first structures were born not from enigmatic inflaton fields, but from the echoes of ancient ...

In the year of quantum, university’s faculty and students continue to innovate bold new work in quantum computing, ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...

The merger resulted in a combined black hole 225 times our sun’s mass, and challenges current astrophysical models of black ...

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

Scientists have developed a more precise method for analyzing gravitational waves, offering a sharper view into the ...

A new theory promises to simplify our approach to the universe's earliest moments, but some cosmologists say further ...

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.