India is building LIGO-India to detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes billions of light years away. How will ...

The best place to observe the stars is among them, which is why Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope have been deployed outside Earth's murky atmosphere. At least, that's the case when you're ...

FROSTI is a new adaptive optics system that precisely corrects distortions in LIGO’s mirrors caused by extreme laser power. By using custom thermal patterns, it preserves mirror shape without ...

After a series of instrument upgrades, LIGO is coming back online April 1 to search for fainter gravitational waves around the universe. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...