Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery ...

Researchers have designed a new type of gravitational wave detector that operates in the milli-Hertz range, a region ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen by ...

In 2019, LIGO and Virgo recorded something truly bizarre – a gravitational wave event less than a tenth of a second in duration.

In a discovery that began generating excitement on social media before it was even announced, scientists have detected rippling gravitational waves more powerful than any identified before. The news ...

As Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida on September 26 as a Category 4 hurricane, it brought destruction and death across the U.S. Southeast. The storm claimed over 230 lives, making it the ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

Observations of gravitational waves from merging black holes may unveil the true nature of dark matter, according to new research. The announcement last week of the discovery of the gravitational wave ...

Detecting gravity waves isn’t easy. But what if you had a really big detector for a long time? That’s what researchers did when they crunched 15 years’ worth of data from the NANOGrav data set. The ...

Drought on Earth probably had an effect on the furthest reaches of the atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An intense ...