From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...

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 ...

Stephen Hawking’s 50-year-old theorem on how black holes merge together has been successfully tested thanks to huge advances in gravitational wave astronomy, which helped astronomers catch the waves ...

Discovery joins a list of the greatest hits of the LIGO detector, which ten years ago became the first to detect gravitational waves. The songs of the cosmos, now that we can finally hear them, might ...

Yes, there are aliens. No, we shouldn't contact them. Thus did world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking crush the hearts of Trekkies and SETI-advocates everywhere. The Times of London got the quotes, ...

Now, in the journal Physical Review Letters, researchers say their ability to analyze gravitational waves has improved so much over the past decade that they were recently able to verify a key idea ...

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking's public statements this year have been decidedly unusual, even weird. In April, he emphatically argued that humans should not try to contact aliens, for fear of ...

Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet into the nature of these cosmic oddities and confirming long-held predictions made ...