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 ...

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 ...

When Hurricane Helene roared into the Southeast with winds near 140 mph, the storm did more than shred roofs and flood ...

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.

Hard to believe it has been 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves. Back then, on Sept. 14, 2015, at 5:51 a.m., it had been 100 years since Albert Einstein predicted gravitational ...

"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists may have "heard" the first ...

At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound is not reflected as it gets absorbed. But the quietness of these chambers always got me thinking of how ...

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, ...