The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that made scientific history and launched a new way to study the universe.
The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland is expected to detect 60% more cataclysmic cosmic events — like colliding neutron stars and black holes — thanks to a quantum limit breakthrough. Since the ...
The latest operating run of the LIGO Hanford observatory near Richland hit the jackpot. The network of its twin gravitational wave observatory in Louisiana and a detector in Italy picked up ripples in ...
Scientists believe if the Trump administration's proposed budget is approved, a Louisiana space observatory could be on the chopping block and see its scientific mission crippled. The Trump ...
Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University). After a three-year hiatus, scientists in the U.S. have just turned on detectors capable of ...
The latest operating run of the LIGO Hanford observatory near Richland hit the jackpot. The network of its twin gravitational wave observatory in Louisiana and a detector in Italy picked up ripples in ...