22 March 2023
The physicist’s final theorem, about why the universe seems fine-tuned for life, contains some provocative predictions. Will they be as fruitful as his insights into black holes?
20 March 2023
In his final years, Stephen Hawking tackled the question of why the universe appears fine-tuned for life. His collaborator Thomas Hertog explains the radical solution they came up with
16 April 2019
From wormhole passages to white hole escape routes, no one knows for certain what lurks beyond a black hole’s event horizon – so choose your own unsettling fate
12 March 2019
A new 50p coin will memorialise Stephen Hawking, who died last year, while paying respect to his groundbreaking research on black holes
17 October 2018
Stephen Hawking did more in his lifetime to advance our understanding of gravity than anyone since Einstein – and much more besides. Join Martin Rees, Marika Taylor, Stuart Clark and Tom Shakespeare as they explore the legacy of the greatest physicist...
16 October 2018
Do black holes eat information or do zero-energy particles nicknamed "hairs" somehow store it instead? Before he died, Stephen Hawking was working on new ideas, as this exclusive extract shows
16 October 2018
Stephen Hawking peered deep into black holes and helped integrate the biggest ideas in physics. But the extraordinary genius was very much a man of his times
16 October 2018
On the publication of Stephen Hawking's final book, his daughter Lucy Hawking reflects on their shared experiences and coming to terms with his death
18 June 2018
There was only one Stephen Hawking but there were a thousand ways to celebrate a genius and science’s only global celebrity at London’s Westminster Abbey
21 March 2018
The death of Stephen Hawking has not just deprived the world of a great scientist, it has deprived science of an effective ambassador to the non-scientific world
