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A technician in a darkened clean room inspects a prototype telescope for the LISA gravitational-wave mission

October 8, 2026NASA

NASA Orders LISA's Engineering Test Telescope From L3Harris

Chart of the masses of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA through gravitational waves, compared with those found by electromagnetic observations

May 26, 2026LIGO Laboratory (Caltech)

GWTC-5.0 Catalog Brings the Gravitational-Wave Tally to 390 Events

Engineer Sameer Jadhav breaks ground at the site of the future LIGO-India gravitational-wave observatory as officials and scientists look on

April 23, 2026LIGO Laboratory (Caltech)

LIGO-India Breaks Ground as the Fifth Gravitational-Wave Observatory