For the past 90 years, the predictions laid out Einstein's general theory of relativity have continued to be confirmed by experimental science. The last hold out is gravitational waves - the idea that certain gravitational events cause actual ripples in Spacetime. The problem is that the effects are...

Scientists are buzzing about gravitational waves and what a big deal they are. Wait! Don’t be embarrassed if it all leaves you confused and you just can’t share their excitement. Here's your guide to gravitational waves, short and simple as ABC.

fter a decades-long quest, The MIT-Caltech collaboration LIGO Laboratories has detected gravitational waves, opening a new era in our exploration of the universe.

Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein's Theory: A team of scientists announced on Thursday, February 11, 2015 that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the last prediction of Einstein's general theo...

Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist. He has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. He stopped by The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert to demonstrate an exciting new sci...

On Monday, scientists announced the first-ever observation of a cosmic event using both gravitational wave detectors and conventional telescopes. They witnessed a kilonova, a violent, brilliant explosion that occurs when two neutron stars collide. The discovery was a massive undertaking. Thousands o...

In the early hours of May 17, 2011 a beautiful filament erupted from the Sun and sent a cloud of plasma into space. This Coronal Mass Ejection was not aimed at Earth but most likely will interact with Earth's magnetic field two days later, creating some of these beautiful auroras. The second segment...