Stephen Hawking is one of the most recognisable figures in modern science. His book 'A Brief History of Time' explained ...

Stephen Hawking was a huge "Stark Trek" fan who got the chance to visit the set of "The Next Generation" in the '90s -- and he made one specific request.

Hawking radiation is a form of radiation emitted by black holes, as theoretically predicted by Stephen Hawking. It suggests ...

Stephen Hawking, the brilliant physicist and author who died Wednesday at 76, was undeniably our age’s most well-known scientist. But he was also a great paradox. I first met Hawking when he came to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in ...

Of the known things in the universe, black holes are among the most extreme. They pack huge amounts of mass densely into a ...

Stephen Hawking, a brilliant theoretical physicist whose ability to overcome a debilitating disease was as big a mystery as some of the enigmas of the cosmos, died Wednesday at age 76. In January 2003 ...

Stephen Hawking may have died on March 14, but he’s still pushing physics forward. Today, the peer-reviewed Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP) published Hawking’s final theory on the universe’s ...

The motorized chair, used by Hawking after he was paralyzed with motor neuron disease, raised 296,750 pounds in a Christie's online auction. It had been expected to fetch up to 15,000 pounds. Proceeds ...

Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein calculated the entropy of a black hole in the 1970s, but it took physicists until now to figure out the quantum effects that make the formula work ...

In the days since Stephen Hawking’s death, obituaries have described him as being “confined” or “chained” to a wheelchair, as someone who “overcame” his disability and succeeded in spite of it. None ...

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking died early Wednesday morning at his home in the United Kingdom, leaving behind three children and three grandchildren, and a fortune he amassed through book sales ...