When two neutron stars collide, they unleash some of the most powerful forces in the universe, creating ripples in spacetime, ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts how ...

Neutron star collisions are known to be factories in which heavy elements are produced. The fusion that takes place inside stellar cores can only produce elements up to iron; the r-process, or ...

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery ...

Something in Antarctica is sending signals, and NASA has detected signs of a powerful presence hidden beneath one of the ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black ...

How can we combat this kind of disinformation and restore public trust in elections? It might be possible to essentially ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

A ccording to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).