Utah native Kip Thorne, who helped conceive the movie “Interstellar,” is excited about the future of gravitational wave ...

Back in the prehistoric days of theoretical astrophysics (1985), in a mystical and exotic corner of planet Earth (Fresno, California), a man sat in the back of a car and tried to break the spacetime ...

Kip Thorne talked about colliding black holes after he received his genius award. JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Four innovators received awards at the fifth annual Genius Gala at Liberty Science Center in New ...

Over a thousand people packed into Jadwin Hall on Thursday, April 12, filling five auditoriums, to attend the 43rd Donald R. Hamilton Lecture delivered by Kip Thorne, Professor Emeritus at the ...

In some ways, it was a typical Southern California scene. Late Tuesday morning, two men found themselves surrounded by an entourage of friends, family and publicists and preceded by a gaggle of ...

Theoretical physicist Kip Thorne is no ordinary science advisor. He wasn’t just on the set of Insterstellar because Christopher Nolan needed a helping hand when it came to visualizing black holes. He ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it makes sense that the movie "Interstellar" needs an entire book to explain the science behind its amazing visuals. In "The Science of 'Interstellar'" (W.W.

In an extensive interview published online this week, the winners of the 2016 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics discuss their 40-year effort to detect gravitational waves, the elusive ripples in the fabric ...

As a scientist whose work shines light into the darkest spaces of the universe, theoretical physicist Kip Thorne long ago learned to think in numbers and pictures alike, blending the facts of science ...

About 1.3 billion years before Kip Thorne was born, a pair of black holes collided in space, rattling the fabric of space-time itself. The gravitational ripples of that long-ago cataclysm traveled the ...

STOCKHOLM -- The Nobel Physics Prize 2017 has been awarded to three scientists for their discoveries in faint ripples flying through the universe called gravitational waves -- proof of a theory ...