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The unexpectedly gentle death of a massive star suggests that it was being robbed by a dense companion lurking out of sight.

An international team of researchers, including two Caltech scientists, observed a superfast jet of material from a neutron star collision.

Professor of Physics Yanbei Chen has been named a Simons Investigator for his work on gravitational-wave physics.

The growing scientific partnership between Caltech and India including the TMT and...

Light detected from a neutron star merger is not from a super-fast jet as previously suspected, but rather a bubble-like cocoon.

LIGO scientists met with artists to gain new perspectives on their research.

After being alerted to a gravitational-wave event by LIGO and its European counterpart Virgo, thousands of scientists across the globe looked at a patch of sky and saw the aftermath of a neutron star collision, marking the first time such an event has been observed with both gravitational-wave and conventional astronomy.

Discovery marks first cosmic event observed in both gravitational waves and light.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to key members of LIGO team.

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors.