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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From space junk gel to hologram surgery, the team had lots of intriguing predictions. Which, if any, came true?

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary ... with black holes (first proposed by Robert Oppenheimer) and "space-time singularities," or events in which the laws of physics seem to break ...