This article originally appeared on Undark. Scientists become celebrities so rarely that the 20th century produced only a handful of such figures, with Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking topping the ...

Researchers have spent 10 years improving the massive detectors they use to catch shockwaves from colliding black holes, and ...

Your cheat sheet into the mind of one of the world’s greatest physicists. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scribbled in pencil on ...

Robert P. Crease is professor in and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. His latest book, with Peter Bond, is The Leak. On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s ...

One of Stephen Hawking's most famous theorems has been proven right, using ripples in space-time caused by the merging of two distant black holes. The black hole area theorem, which Hawking derived in ...