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

A fresh black hole merger detection has offered the clearest evidence yet for Einstein’s relativity and Hawking’s predictions ...

The LIGO confirmed predictions made by prominent physicists about black holes, as their nature could lead toward a theory of quantum gravity.

Before his passing, Stephen Hawking left humanity with one final inspiring message about curiosity, science, and the future ...

Ten years after LIGO’s historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace.

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

Stephen Hawking is known for a lot of things — theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, general relativity — but being an an activist for peace in the Middle East is hardly one of them. Not any more!

The Guardian posted yet another "very rare" interview with physicist Stephen Hawking today. While kept necessarily short, the interview provides some characteristically quotable phrases sure to become ...