Stephen Hawking was told he had 2 years to live—then revolutionized physics for 50. He passed in 2018, but his cosmic legacy ...

An armed police officer at the scene of a stabbing incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue, in Manchester, ...

Comedian Stephen Colbert will be looking for a new job after his run on The Late Show ends in May 2026. CBS announced on Thursday evening that the long-running late night program founded by David ...

Donald Trump and Stephen Miller spoke at Kirk's memorial, citing his death as a moment of conservative "revival" ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever-clearer signals, researchers are testing Einstein’s relativity and Hawking ...

ESPN host Stephen A. Smith spoke out against anyone openly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. During an episode of his podcast Thursday, Smith aggressively condemned anyone celebrating ...

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 ...

Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert mourned the death of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Wednesday after he was assassinated at a campus event in Utah. "Instead of the angry ...

Late-night TV hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are among those decrying the killing of Charlie Kirk and condemning political violence. “After our scripts for tonight’s show were finished this ...

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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, ...

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 ...