SXS—Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes—is an ongoing scientific collaboration that has been generating simulations of dramatic ...

Japanese Nobel Laureate Takaaki Kajita commends India's remarkable rise in the Global Innovation Index, attributing it to ...

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).

Using the world’s largest digital camera, Rubin will capture a full view of the southern sky every three days. reading time 6 minutes The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...

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 ...

The observatory is hidden among 400 Valencia orange trees in the 5-acre Orange Grove on the California State University Northridge campus. The San Fernando Observatory (SBO) is known for its unusual ...

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday appointed astronomer Father Richard Anthony D’Souza, SJ, as the new director of the Vatican Observatory. D’Souza, who has worked at the Vatican’s astronomical research and ...

SO AS WE’RE HIKING IN OVER 26 YEARS WORKING AT THE BLUE HILL OBSERVATORY AND SCIENCE CENTER IN MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR DON MCCASLIN HAS LEARNED A THING OR TWO. THIS TRUNK IS A BEACH ...

Now the LSST camera's first imagery has been released, starting with a composite of 678 captures over a 7-hour stretch that "clearly reveals otherwise faint or invisible details" of the Trifid Nebula ...

SANTIAGO, June 27 (Reuters) - Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of the cosmos, allowing astronomers to figure ...

WASHINGTON — A celebration of the long-awaited first images from a major new observatory is overshadowed by the fears astronomers have about proposed severe budget cuts at the agency funding them. At ...