Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking recognized AI's immense potential to solve global challenges and improve lives. However ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected a massive ringing emitted by colliding black holes, providing the ...

It’s a cosmic puzzle piece that doesn’t seem to belong to any known set. We all know the Moon has a side that always faces away from us, but it turns out that far side might be hiding something ...

Learn more about black holes and what causes them to ring. A massive new study adds evidence to theories by Einstein, Hawking ...

Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas.

Nobel laureate Kip Thorne, who will deliver the Royal Irish Academy 2025 Hamilton Lecture, on his lifelong quest to ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

A new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their ...

The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story. Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could’ve come from a theoretical object known as a ...

On 14 January 2025, LIGO’s detectors in the US picked up the gravitational wave signal GW250114, caused by the collision of two black holes roughly 1.3 billion light-years away. This wasn’t the first ...