Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), tucked away in the piney woods of Livingston Parish, feared their operation detecting black holes would be shuttered after ...

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 Clearest Signal Yet Detected The event, dubbed GW250114, became known in January when researchers spotted it with the ...

LIGO Hanford detected record-setting black hole merger, challenging current knowledge. Merged black holes spun near general relativity’s limit, baffling scientists. Funding cuts threaten U.S.

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 ...

Scientists believe if the Trump administration's proposed budget is approved, a Louisiana space observatory could be on the chopping block and see its scientific mission crippled. The Trump ...

Trump budget proposal seeks to close one of two U.S. LIGO observatories by 2026. LIGO facilities detected first gravitational waves and advanced multi-messenger astronomy. Proposed closure risks ...

The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation's two cutting-edge observatories - one of them in the Tri-Cities - that made scientific history and launched a new way to study the universe.