Between April 2023 and November 2025, the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run (O4) delivered an unprecedented stream of gravitational-wave alerts to the astronomical community. There were a total of 5,466 candidate alerts that were released – an order-of-magnitude increase compared to previous observing runs. GOTO listened to the alert stream using the full telescope network of…
In 2025, GOTO had an outstanding year, detecting and reporting 6,703 transients (~18 per day), a rise of more than 60% compared to the previous year (~4,060). Of these, GOTO was the original discoverer of 2,557, another 60% increase on last years figure of 1,543 and an average of 7 per day. 48 of these…
We are excited to announce that Kilonova Seekers has re-launched and entered Generation 3, marking the next phase of the project and a major update to how volunteer classifications help contribute to both discovery and machine learning. For those new to the project, Kilonova Seekers is a citizen-science project that uses data from the Gravitational-wave…