Seattle-area high school senior awarded $250,000 for gravitational wave research Christine Ye, a senior at Eastlake High School in Sammamish, Wash., has won the top award in the nation’s oldest… Read More
GeekWire Calendar Picks: The beginning of the universe, autonomous cars, and AI at work — It’s one of the great questions of humanity that will likely never be answered: how did the universe begin?… Read More
Japan’s KAGRA detector joins LIGO and Virgo in global hunt for gravitational waves Japan’s Kamioka Gravitational-Wave Detector, or KAGRA, is due to start teaming up with similar detectors in Washington state, Louisiana and… Read More
A double whammy of gravitational waves sparks a burst of black hole speculation Two detections of gravitational waves, separated by a mere 21 minutes, set off a flurry of excitement among astronomers today.… Read More
51 years after discovering pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3M Breakthrough Prize British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell missed out on a share of the Nobel Prize for her part in the discovery… Read More
The way we think of black holes just might be in for a radical change … again After decades’ worth of mystery, it feels as if physicists are finally closing in on the nature of black holes,… Read More
Kavli Prizes go to pioneers of gene editing, neuroscience and astrochemistry Three inventors of the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 technique for editing DNA are among the recipients of this year’s Kavli Prizes, which… Read More
NASA’s Rossi X-ray probe makes a quiet exit after spending 22 years in orbit News Brief: A month after the breakup of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab, another spacecraft went to its fiery doom today… Read More
NASA delays Webb Space Telescope’s liftoff to 2020, says it may bust $8B budget NASA is delaying the scheduled launch of its next flagship observatory, the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, by a… Read More
Gravitational waves get to play a starring role in ‘Black Hole Apocalypse’ on TV Black holes are the collapsed stars of the show on “Black Hole Apocalypse,” a two-hour “NOVA” presentation that’s premiering Wednesday… Read More
NASA picks IXPE: Space telescope will study X-ray fingerprints of black holes NASA is committing $188 million to build and launch a space telescope to observe patterns in the X-ray radiation emanating… Read More
Podcast: Astrophysicist Katie Mack explains the universe to journalist Glenn Fleishman We’d all like to know more about the universe, and on Jan. 13, Dr. Katie Mack, a postdoctoral researcher of dark… Read More
