A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

NASA has recently raised alarms about the existential threats facing Earth, bringing into focus the predictions made by physicist Stephen Hawking prior to his death in 2018. Though the space ...

Scientists are developing miniature lightsails that could travel at unprecedented speeds, potentially enabling interstellar travel.

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...

In 2010, physicist Stephen Hawking voiced concern about the possibility that we might contact extraterrestrial life by transmitting signals into space. However, SETI senior astronomer Seth Shostak ...

World-famous theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking in an exclusive interview ... prospects for Russia-US cooperation in space and the challenges the humanity may face - Once ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 2010, physicist Stephen Hawking voiced concern about the possibility that we might contact extraterrestrial life by transmitting signals into space. However ...

The idea of traveling through interstellar space using spacecraft propelled by ultrathin sails may sound like the stuff of sci-fi novels. But in fact, a program started in 2016 by Stephen Hawking and ...

He was an expert in space and cosmology (the science of the ... In the 20th century, Professor Stephen Hawking made a huge difference to the world by solving some of the biggest mysteries of ...