Since that time, LIGO has risen into the double digits with the number of detections it's made, as gravitational waves are now undoubtedly real and teaching us an incredible amount about our Universe.

The early universe may have been such a violent place that space-time itself fractured like a pane of glass, releasing gravitational waves that astronomers say we may have already detected.

The very fabric of the universe is ringing with gravitational waves from its earliest epoch, and researchers have finally "heard" this cosmic symphony. On Thursday, June 28, the North American ...

“The gravitational-wave background was always going to be the loudest, most obvious thing to find,” said Chiara Mingarelli, an astrophysicist at Yale University and a member of NANOGrav, which ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled evidence that gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago, are permeating the universe at low ...

Various large-scale astrophysical research projects are set to take place over the next decade, several of which are so-called cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. These are large-scale ...

The phenomenon occurs in the two Van Allen radiation belts, which are loops of charged particles trapped in a kind of donut shape around Earth.The belts, which extend from about 400 miles to more ...