LIGO Hanford has a new partner in its search for gravitational waves created by violent events in space. Scientists are expecting the expanded network to lead to more detections of ripples through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that ...

The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events — like colliding neutron stars and black holes — thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough. Since the ...

The showpiece Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is designed to work in sync with two similar facilities in the United States which, in 2015, detected gravitational waves for ...

A team of researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), in the U.S., has developed what they describe as a squeezed light system to improve detection sensitivity.

After a prolonged absence from the gravitational-wave-detection scene, the massive LIGO project is back up and running. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) works in ...

RICHLAND – The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 in ...

The Nobel Prize-winning project that hunts for gravitational waves— ripples in space and time—is about to begin the longest and most sensitive observational run to date. The National Science ...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding Caltech and MIT $20.4 million to upgrade the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) into the Advanced LIGO Plus. Advanced LIGO ...

Three years ago, a little-known telescope made waves with an incredible discovery, or rather, detected some waves. In 2015, the LIGO telescope became the first to detect gravitational waves, first ...

The LIGO observatory near Richland has detected the apparent gravitational ripples from a black hole swallowing a neutron star. It could be a scientific first. Just after 2 p.m. Aug. 14, the Hanford ...