LIGO's 2015 detection confirmed Einstein's theory and sparked a decade of data. Upgraded LIGOs now detect black hole mergers every three days with precision. New 2025 findings confirmed Hawking’s ...

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 ...

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., used her powerful position in Congress to help Tri-Cities science, environmental and historical projects.

The LIGO Hanford observatory was set to officially start another operating run Wednesday, May 24, but it may have already made another significant detection of a violent event long ago in outer space.

After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the US have just turned on detectors capable of measuring gravitational waves—tiny ripples in space itself that travel through the universe. Unlike light waves ...

Senate bill includes funding to keep both U.S. LIGO observatories operational. LIGO confirmed 300 gravitational wave events since Nobel-honored 2015 discovery. Sen. Murray worked to save LIGO by ...