Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on Jan. 8, 1942 — the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death, he liked to point out.

Neil deGrasse Tyson recalls a powerful moment with Stephen Hawking, who told him, “You can’t think of everything”—a humbling reminder of the vast, endless mystery of the universe and human curiosity.

John Oliver Reacts To ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Cancelation: "Terrible News For The World Of Comedy" For the first time in modern history a capital city is on the verge of running dry Ellen ...

LONDON -- One of the galaxy's brightest minds, physicist Stephen Hawking, has died at age 76 and tributes have come in from all corners of the globe. Hawking finally lost his battle overnight with ...

And, why shouldn't I? Eddie Redmayne, who portrayed Hawking in the film, won an Academy Award for his performance, and the movie details how he came up with many of the theories that made him a ...

Exploring Stephen Hawking's 'Unfettered Mind' The scientist is known as much for his contributions to theoretical cosmology and quantum gravity as for his willingness to make science accessible ...

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.

Stephen Hawking may have pondered exalted regions — explaining the heavens and exploring black holes — but he also slipped into the public imagination, a mathematical genius whose humor and ...

Stephen Hawking, the legendary physicist, cosmologist and world-famous author, died on Wednesday at the age of 76. Here's our 1988 cover story on Hawking, published around the time his best ...

Stephen Hawking has made many grim predictions this year about humanity, including one that we could be overtaken by AI and that Earth may become as hot as Venus. U.S. World ...

— -- Stephen Hawking is ready to find aliens. The cosmologist is throwing his support behind a $100 million initiative, funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, to begin an extensive search ...

Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online : The Two-Way By late Monday, the thesis had been viewed more than 60,000 times, a Cambridge official says.