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 observatory in Livingston Parish that made a historic scientific breakthrough by detecting gravitational waves is now at risk of shutting down under the Trump administration's proposed federal ...

Using a unique scientific facility at Hanford, scientists have opened an exciting new field of astronomy and confirmed the existence of gravitational waves in the universe first predicted by Albert ...

Senate bill includes funding to keep both U.S. LIGO observatories operational. LIGO confirmed 300 gravitational wave events since Nobel-honored 2015 discovery. Sen. Murray worked to save LIGO by ...

LIGO Hanford detected record-setting black hole merger, challenging current knowledge. Merged black holes spun near general relativity’s limit, baffling scientists. Funding cuts threaten U.S.

Trump budget proposal seeks to close one of two U.S. LIGO observatories by 2026. LIGO facilities detected first gravitational waves and advanced multi-messenger astronomy. Proposed closure risks ...