Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that ...

RICHLAND – The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in Eastern Washington has died. Rainer Weiss, 92, died Aug. 25 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 ...

Physicist who won a Nobel Prize for LIGO Hanford observatory in Eastern WA died. LIGO confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity by detecting gravitational waves in 2015. Twin LIGO sites in WA and LA ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.