The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO—has completed its first science run.

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a ...

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are made up of fast-moving, magnetized plasma.

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

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

Frequency of prayer among adults who feel a deep sense of wonder about the universe several times a year by religious group % of adults who feel a deep sense of wonder about the universe several times ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...