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

LONDON (AP) — Stephen Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said early Wednesday. "He was a great scientist ...

For most of us, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time is a coffee table book — something we wanted to read (or wanted others to think we read) but never did. That’s a shame, because Dr. Stephen ...

When Stephen W. Hawking, the famous British physicist who studied black holes and other cosmological wonders, visited Ithaca more than 50 years ago, it didn’t go well. Hawking, who died on Tuesday at ...

Black holes are often described as cosmic traps from which nothing can escape, yet modern physics says they are not perfectly black. At their edges, quantum effects make them glow with a faint thermal ...