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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, November 17th

Livingston • News Release • November 13, 2018

On Saturday, November 17th, LIGO Livingston, opens to the public for tours, activities and SCIENCE! Come on by and tour the world's first successful gravitational wave detector. In November, explore science activities you can do while waiting for dinner! LIGO's Science Saturdays are FREE and open to the public from 1-5 PM.

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LIGO Scientists Awarded New Horizons in Physics Prize

News Release • October 17, 2018

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, October 20th

Livingston • News Release • October 9, 2018

Come tour the world's first successful gravitational wave detector! On Saturday Oct. 20th, LIGO Livingston opens its doors to the public as we celebrate science. Tours happen roughly every 30 minutes. Lobby activities center around detecting things and using science to understand what you've detected. LIGO's Science Saturdays are free and open to the public from 1 PM - 5 PM.

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LIGO Prepares for Third Observing Run

News Release • September 21, 2018

Staff at LIGO Hanford and Livingston are hard at work finishing critical upgrades and preparing for the start of LIGO's third observing run, O3, scheduled to begin sometime early 2019.

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LIGO Laboratory Announces The Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration

News Release • September 14, 2018

LIGO Laboratory announces The LIGO Lab Award for Excellence in Detector Characterization and Calibration

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, Sept. 15th

Livingston • News Release • September 13, 2018

Release some pressure on Sept.15th, as LIGO opens to the public for tours, activities and SCIENCE! In September you can explore the pressure inside gases, learn about vacuums and more in our Lobby! Come on by and tour the world's first successful gravitational wave detector. LIGO's Science Saturdays are FREE and open to the public from 1-5 PM.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell Receives Breakthrough Prize

News Release • September 10, 2018

The LIGO Lab and LIGO Scientific Collaboration congratulate Jocelyn Bell Burnell for receiving the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

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C.E.K. Mees Medal awarded to Stanley Whitcomb

News Release • August 20, 2018

LIGO’s Stanley Whitcomb recently received 2018 C.E.K. Mees Medal from the Optical Society.  Whitcomb is being recognized for his pioneering, diverse interdisciplinary contributions to the LIGO gravitational wave detectors.  The award recognizes “an original use of optics across multiple fields.” 

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LIGO Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of Historic Binary Neutron Star Merger Detection

News Release • August 17, 2018

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, Aug. 18th

Livingston • News Release • August 14, 2018

Have an electrifyingly good time on Aug.18th, as LIGO opens to the public for tours, activities and SCIENCE! In August you can explore lightning, create your own circuit, and more in our Lobby! Come on by and investigate the new set of exhibits that arrived in June, and tour the world's first successful gravitational wave detector. LIGO's Science Saturdays are FREE and open to the public from 1-5 PM.

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, July 21st

Livingston • News Release • July 19, 2018

Celebrate a science-filled summer with LIGO's Science Saturday! Saturday, July 21st, LIGO opens to the public for tours, activities and SCIENCE! In July you can get some science R&R in as you explore Reflection & Refraction in our lobby! Use reflection to combine your face with a friend's face, use reflection and refraction to make a penny disappear and much more! Come on by and investigate the new set of exhibits that arrived in June, and tour the world's first successful gravitational wave detector. LIGO's Science Saturdays are FREE and open to the public from 1-5 PM.

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LIGO Congratulates IceCube on Multimessenger Astronomy Success

News Release • July 16, 2018

The LIGO Laboratory congratulates the IceCube neutrino observatory team on its recent multimessenger astronomy success!

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LIGO Designated APS Historic Site

News Release • June 15, 2018

On June 20th, LIGO's two detector sites will be designated historic sites by the American Physical Society. The two observatories - one in Livingston, Louisiana and one in Hanford, Washington - will receive plaques recognizing the historic nature of the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, June 16th

Livingston • News Release • June 8, 2018

Celebrate a science-filled summer with LIGO's Science Saturday! Saturday, June 16th, LIGO opens to the public for tours, activities and SCIENCE! In June you can explore Science With Inexpensive Materials in our lobby, and be one of the first to create cloud rings with one of our 11 new exhibits. LIGO's Science Saturdays are FREE and open to the public from 1-5 PM.

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, May 19th

Livingston • News Release • May 18, 2018

On Saturday, May 19th, LIGO Science Education Center in Livingston, LA, will be hosting it's monthly Science Saturday when we are open to the public from 1 PM - 5 PM. Lobby activities are all about Rainbow Astronomy! Tours are conducted every 30-40 minutes from 1 PM - 4 PM. LIGO's Science Saturdays are free and open to the public - you can drop in any time from 1-5 PM.

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, April 21st

Livingston • News Release • April 16, 2018

On Saturday, April 21st, LIGO Science Education Center in Livingston, LA, will be hosting it's monthly Science Saturday when we are open to the public from 1 PM - 5 PM. Come experience the science of rocking and rolling motions and their connections with gravitational waves!

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, March 17th

Livingston • News Release • March 9, 2018

On Saturday, March 17th, LIGO Science Education Center in Livingston, LA, will be hosting it's monthly Science Saturday when we are open to the public from 1 PM - 5 PM.

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New Video: LIGO: A Discovery that Shook the World

News Release • February 22, 2018

The National Science Foundation funded Advanced LIGO Documentary Project released a new video looking at information coming from first multi-messenger detection of colliding neutron stars. On August 8, 2017, LIGO joined forces with Virgo and over 70 astronomical observatories to look at a neutron star merger through gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves (light). This video explores the significance of that event.

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New Ron Drever Gravitational Wave Scholarship Announced

News Release • January 2, 2018

The family of a pioneering Scottish physicist has donated a substantial portion of his estate to support a postgraduate research scholarship at the University of Glasgow.

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Physics World 2017 Breakthrough of the Year Award

News Release • December 11, 2017

Physics World announced that the first multi-messenger detection of a neutron star merger was 2017's breakthrough of the year. LIGO was one of over 50 collaborations involved with this breakthrough.

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Nobel Prize Week

News Release • December 6, 2017

LIGO Founders Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish will be awarded the Nobel prize this week in Stockholm, Sweden. On Friday, Dec. 8th they will deliver their Nobel lectures. On Sunday, Dec. 10th they will receive their medals as part of the Nobel award ceremony.

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, Dec. 16th

Livingston • News Release • December 5, 2017

On Saturday, Dec. 16th, LIGO Science Education Center in Livingston, LA, will be hosting it's monthly Science Saturday when we are open to the public from 1 PM - 5 PM.

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Adalberto Giazotto, 1940-2017

News Release • November 20, 2017

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LIGO and Virgo announce the detection of a black hole binary merger from June 8, 2017

News Release • November 15, 2017

Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year. Dubbed GW170608, the latest discovery was produced by the merger of two relatively light black holes, 7 and 12 times the mass of the sun, at a distance of about a thousand million light-years from Earth. The merger left behind a final black hole 18 times the mass of the sun, meaning that energy equivalent to about 1 solar mass was emitted as gravitational waves during the collision.

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Science Saturday @LIGO Livingston, Nov. 18th

Livingston • News Release • November 13, 2017

On Saturday, Nov. 18th, LIGO Science Education Center in Livingston, LA, will be hosting it's monthly Science Saturday when we are open to the public from 1 PM - 5 PM. In the lobby we invite you to Engineer It with various engineering activities! Tours are conducted every 30 minutes from 1 PM - 4 PM.