Stephen Hawking had an unsettling response when asked what happens after we die. While it's difficult to quantify how many ...

*Stephen Hawking, the legendary scientist has died. He passed away early Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, England, his family said. He was 76. The physicist, who suffered from a debilitating ...

Stephen Hawking, a brilliant theoretical physicist, defied a devastating motor neuron disease diagnosis to revolutionize our ...

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking recognized AI's immense potential to solve global challenges and improve lives. However ...

A decade ago, the universe whispered, and humanity, for the first time, had the tools to listen. On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made history with ...

On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...

Scientists have confirmed two long-standing theories relating to black holes—thanks to the detection of the most clearly recorded gravitational wave signal to date. Ten years after detecting the first ...

Back in 1971, the late physicist Stephen Hawking made an intriguing prediction: The total surface area of a black hole cannot decrease, only increase or remain stable. So if two black holes combine, ...