Scientists find a new way to search for gravitational waves using the Moon

The Earth-Moon system could serve as a natural gravitational-wave detector, using decades of extraordinarily precise lunar laser-ranging measurements to search for tiny orbital disturbances caused by ...

See how gravitational waves warp time and space

Since gravitational waves were first detected, in 2015, physicists have found almost 400 of these undulations in the fabric of spacetime. A new catalog of the findings, released this year, includes ...

Scientists have narrowed the search for alternatives to black holes

Gravitational waves can help determine whether the observed compact object is really a black hole or represents another, so ...

LIGO's 1,200 Scientists Detected Gravitational Waves, But Only Three Won the Nobel

Editor's Note125 years since the first award in 1901. Science has evolved from the age of discoveries made by a single genius ...

Gravitational-wave analysis narrows the search for black hole impostors

Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. When two black ...