Local communities named newly discovered stellar streams for bodies of water close to home.
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From Physics World, Dec. 11, 2017: The top breakthrough goes to the international team of astronomers and astrophysicists that ushered in a new era of astronomy by making the first ever multimessenger observation involving gravitational waves. Pierre Auger is also on the list.
The Fundamental Physics Prize recognizes WMAP’s contributions to precision cosmology.
Barish explains how LIGO became the high-achieving experiment it is today.
For the first time, experiments have seen both light and gravitational waves released by a single celestial crash.
Scientists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish won the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for their roles in creating the LIGO experiment.
Astronomers are at the forefront of the fight against light pollution, which can obscure our view of the cosmos.
The minuscule and the immense can reveal quite a bit about each other.
Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster.
From BBC News, Aug. 3, 2017: Dark Energy Survey researchers have released the most accurate map ever produced of the dark matter in our universe.