New algorithm could stitch together astronomical measurements made across the globe.

LIGO inventor shares award for direct detection of gravitational waves.

Physics professor emeritus shares prize with Caltech's Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever for designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

Team that detected gravitational waves to share $3 million prize.

Exoplanet lacks atmosphere, is covered in rivers of magma.

Unique galaxy offers clues to the extreme conditions that yield the heavies of the periodic table.

MIT’s David Shoemaker testifies before Congress on the significance of LIGO.

MIT physicist developed the concept for LIGO as a teaching exercise.

LIGO opens a new window on the universe with the observation of gravitational waves from colliding black holes.