Before he started the whole alien spaceship thing last year, the chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department was known for public lectures on modesty. Personal modesty, which Avi Loeb said he learned growing up on a farm. And what Loeb calls “cosmic modesty” – the idea that it’s arrogant to assume we are alone in the universe, or even a particularly special species. You can find a poster for one […]

Stephen Hawking, the brightest star in the firmament of science, whose insights shaped modern cosmology and inspired global audiences in the millions, has died aged 76. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday morning, his family said. Prof Hawking, one of the world’s finest scientific minds, was diagnosed with a rare form of motor neurone disease in 1964 at the age of 22 […]

Humans will need to colonise another planet within the next 100 years to survive climate change, asteroid strikes and overpopulation, according to renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking. In a documentary, Expedition New Earth — part of the BBC’s new science season Tomorrow’s World — Mr Hawking and his former student Christophe Galfard will travel the world to find out how humans could survive in outer space. In the series, Mr […]

British physicist Stephen Hawking has warned against announcing our presence to any alien civilisations, especially to those more technologically advanced than humans. Our first contact from an advanced civilisation could be equivalent to when Native Americans first encountered Christopher Columbus and things “didn’t turn out so well”, Hawking said in a new online film. The film, “Stephen Hawking’s Favourite Places”, takes viewers to five significant locations across the cosmos, on […]

World-renowned British physicist Stephen Hawking, 73, is turning his name into trademark for charitable purposes. The move will also prevent others from exploiting his name with inappropriate products, celebrities like JK Rowling and David Beckham, who have turned their names into brands. Professor Hawking has applied to the Intellectual Property Office to have his name formally registered, and another English physicist, Brian Cox, has already made the move. Both the […]

  New Delhi: Physicist Stephen Hawking has warned the scientists against beaming messages into the universe and showing our presence as it could turn out to be catastrophic. The idea that we might not be alone in this vast universe has made Scientists to explore different ways to communicate with the aliens and sending them signals from Earth. But Stephen Hawking has time and again warned them against it as […]

Stephen Hawking has joined Facebook, promising to share his work toward discovering “what makes the universe exist” with his followers of his new account. “Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my pursuit,” Hawking writes. “Our connections to one another have grown infinitely and now that I have the chance, I’m eager to share this journey with you.” His page has also posted a […]

London: British theoretical physicist and Professor Stephen Hawking has recently warned that the “God” particle could destroy the universe. He says that the Higgs boson could cause a ”catastrophic vacuum decay” that undermines space-time and destroys the universe. He has unveiled this information in the introduction to a new book of scientist lectures called Starmus . He writes, “The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable […]