Learn More

Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, Feb. 18th.

Livingston • News Release • February 17, 2017

On Science Saturday's LIGO, Livingston opens its doors to the public, and engages the public with meaningful science activities. Tours of the site are given throughout the day. On February 18th we celebrate Valentines with Lobby activities on attraction (magnetic, gravitational and electric).

Learn More

New movie on LIGO's Mirror suspensions

News Release • February 16, 2017

The Advanced LIGO Documentary project released an 8 minute video looking at the suspension system that holds up LIGO's Mirrors.

Learn More

New LIGO movie premieres

News Release • February 7, 2017

A new movie about LIGO was just released and is premiering on the newscientist web page at: https://www.newscientist.com/round-up/ligodetection/.

Learn More

National Academy of Sciences Honors LIGO Researchers

News Release • January 26, 2017

National Academy of Sciences' Henry Draper Medal and the 2017 Award for Scientific Discovery awarded to members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Learn More

Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, January 21st

Livingston • News Release • January 12, 2017

On Science Saturday's LIGO, Livingston opens its doors to the public, and engages the public with meaningful science activities. Tours of the site are given throughout the day. On January 21st we celebrate a Colorful New Year with new exhibits on color and vision and Lobby activities to complement these exhibits.

Learn More

LIGO Resumes Search for Gravitational Waves

News Release • November 30, 2016

After a series of upgrades, LIGO has turned back on and resumed its search for ripples in the fabric of space and time.

Learn More

Spin in to Science on Nov. 19th

Livingston • News Release • November 16, 2016

On Nov. 19th LIGO's Science Education Center in Livingston, LA will open its doors for its monthly Science Saturday - when visitors can tour the site, experience the exhibit hall and experiment with Spinning objects in the Lobby. LIGO will be open from 1 PM - 5 PM with tours taking place every 20-30 minutes.

Learn More

LIGO Launches "Gravity Spy" Citizen Science Program

News Release • October 18, 2016

LIGO's newest Citizen Science Program, Gravity Spy, will enable anyone around the world to help LIGO scientists and LIGO computers become better and faster at finding the telltale traces of gravitational waves.

Learn More

LIGO Celebrates First Anniversary of Historic Gravitational Wave Detection!

Feature Story • September 14, 2016

Today, LIGO celebrates and reflects on the first ever detection of gravitational waves, made on September 14, 2015.

Learn More

LIGO Pioneers Receive Kavli Prize in Norway

News Release • September 9, 2016

LIGO's Kavli Prize winners received their awards this week in Oslo, Norway

Learn More

aLIGO Engineering Team Receives Prestigious Optical Society Award

News Release • September 7, 2016

LIGO is pleased to announce that The Optical Society (OSA) has selected the Advanced LIGO Engineering Team as the 2016 recipient of the Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award.

Learn More

Explore LIGO's Good Vibrations at Science Saturday, Sept. 17th

Livingston • News Release • September 2, 2016

On Sept. 17th LIGO's Science Education Center in Livingston, LA will open its doors for its monthly Science Saturday - where visitors can tour the site, experience the exhibit hall and experiment with vibrations & waves in the lobby. LIGO will be open from 1 PM - 5 PM with tours taking place every 30 minutes.

Learn More

Flooding Closure

Livingston • News Release • August 18, 2016

LIGO Livingston has decided to CANCEL its monthly Science Saturday in August due to the historic flooding in the region. While the LIGO facility is in good shape, cancelling will allow the staff to concentrate on the larger local cleanup efforts.

Learn More

Swing into Science Saturday, July 16th

Livingston • News Release • July 13, 2016

July 16th from 1 PM - 5 PM LIGO Livingston's Science Education Center Swings into Science Saturday! Take tours, explore the exhibit hall and have a fun educational time exploring pendulums and things that swing. Free.

Learn More

LIGO Does It Again: A Second Robust Binary Black Hole Coalescence Observed

News Release • June 15, 2016

On December 26, 2015, LIGO's detectors caught a second robust signal from two black holes in their final orbits and then their coalescence into a single black hole.

Learn More

News Release • June 15, 2016

GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTED FROM SECOND PAIR OF COLLIDING BLACK HOLES.

Learn More

LIGO's Colorful Science Saturday, June 18th

Livingston • News Release • June 8, 2016

June 18th from 1 PM - 5 PM LIGO Livingston's Science Education Center presents a Science Saturday on Colorful Science! Take tours, explore the exhibit hall and interact with lobby activities - all free of charge.

Learn More

Congratulations LISA Pathfinder!

News Release • June 7, 2016

The LIGO team congratulates LISA Pathfinder on their results published in Physical Review Letters. LISA Pathfinder is testing the key technologies that will go into a space-based gravitational wave detector. Such detectors will complement ground-based gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO.

Learn More

May's "Science Sounds" Science Saturday

Livingston • News Release • May 20, 2016

May 21st from 1 PM - 5 PM LIGO Livingston's Science Education Center presents a Science Saturday on Science Sounds! Take tours, explore the exhibit hall and interact with lobby activities - all free of charge.

Learn More

LIGO Collaboration Receives Two Major Scientific Awards

News Release • May 4, 2016

Learn More

LIGO Mourns the Loss of Vladimir Braginsky

Feature Story • April 25, 2016

Learn More

UNO presentation: Hearing Black Holes Collide in LA

Livingston • News Release • April 20, 2016

On April 21st, join Dr. Joseph Giaime, LIGO Livingston Observatory Head, as he presents: HEARING BLACK HOLES COLLIDE IN LOUISIANA at the University of New Orleans. This talk is free and open to the public. For more information visit: http://physics.uno.edu/einstein2016.htm

Learn More

April's Pressing Science Saturday

Livingston • News Release • April 12, 2016

April 16th from 1 PM - 5 PM LIGO Livingston's Science Education Center hosts its monthly Science Saturday where the public is invited to take tours, explore the exhibit hall and interact with lobby demonstrations about pressure! All activities are free.

Learn More

LIGO India MOU signed

News Release • March 31, 2016

The National Science Foundation's director, France A. Córdova has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with officials in India to officially mark the go-ahead for constructing a third LIGO advanced gravitational wave detector in India.

Learn More

Tour LIGO in Livingston LA, the world's first successful gravitational wave detector

Livingston • News Release • February 29, 2016

March 19th, 10 AM - 5 PM, LIGO Livingston, LA will be offering free tours and an exhibit hall experience as part of its monthly Science Saturday series. Come and learn about waves!