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07/27/2017

LIGO's Dennis Coyne Receives American Astronomical Society Award

Whitney Clavin

LIGO's chief engineer honored for his role in developing gravitational-wave detectors.

06/15/2017

Whitney Clavin

Caltech scientists Barry Barish and Kip S. Thorne have been awarded the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

06/01/2017

Whitney Clavin

Newest LIGO observation provides clues about the spins, and possible origins, of binary black holes.

02/14/2017

Kip Thorne talks about the years leading up to LIGO’s first detection of gravitational waves.

11/30/2016

Whitney Clavin

The twin detectors of LIGO have resumed their search for gravitational waves.

06/15/2016

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo collaboration identify a second gravitational wave event in the data from Advanced LIGO detectors.

06/14/2016

The latest research in the effort to detect gravitational waves will be discussed in a press briefing on Wednesday, June 15.

06/14/2016

The latest research in the effort to detect gravitational waves will be discussed in a press...

06/02/2016

Whitney Clavin

The $1 million Kavli Prize in Astrophysics has been awarded to the three founders of LIGO.

06/01/2016

Whitney Clavin

This year's Shaw Prize in Astronomy, worth $1.2 million, has been awarded to the trio of researchers who founded LIGO.