Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves. University of ...

Last month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time.

A lot has happened in gravitational-wave astronomy over the past decade. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sept. 14, 2015, was one ...

"GW250114 is the loudest gravitational wave event we have detected to date; it was like a whisper becoming a shout." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe’s gravitational wave background—the constant flow of waves that churn through the cosmos, ...