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

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 ...

Physicist Stephen Hawking made a splash this week when he announced that he had solved a vexing conundrum that had puzzled generations of leading physicists -- including the 73-year-old scientific ...

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 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, 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 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 at the University of Potsdam, near Berlin, in 1999. (Markus Schreiber/AP) Alan Lightman is a physicist, novelist, and professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT.

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.

Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist who overcame a devastating neurological disease to probe the greatest mysteries of the cosmos and become a globally celebrated symbol of the ...