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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...