Japanese researchers are pushing quantum technology to the point where it can register unimaginably small disturbances, ...

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

A massive star may have burst, leaving behind two dense, dead cores, which then collided and caused another explosion ...

Physicists are no longer content to simply listen to ripples in spacetime. A new proposal sketches out how an exquisitely ...

A new concept for energy transfer between gravitational waves and light. When massive cosmic objects such as black holes merge or neutron stars crash into one another, they can produce gravitational ...

A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in ...

This photograph shows four lasers at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, each one launched from one of the four eight-metre telescopes on site. The launch of these lasers represents a significant milestone for ...

This animation, provided by the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), shows the path of light inside GRAVITY+, an instrument and a large and complex upgrade to ESO’s Very Large ...

Gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime caused by cosmic collisions like merging black holes, are almost impossibly faint. Detecting them requires LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ...

Efforts to understand the universe could get a boost from an AI developed by Google DeepMind. The algorithm, which can reduce unwanted noise by up to 100 times, could allow the Laser Interferometer ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a length measurement system that achieves a level of precision approaching the theoretical limit allowed by quantum ...