Stephen Hawking used his fame to raise awareness of what people need to thrive when they're living with a disability. Credit: AFP/Getty Images When Stephen Hawking spoke, the world listened.

Beloved scientist Stephen Hawking, who overcame a debilitating disease to continue probing the mysteries of the universe, died Wednesday at the age of 76. Hawking authored numerous books ...

No one can say with any certainty when the end of the world will come, but it is possible to give a general description of ...

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death. He has come to be thought of as the greatest mind in physics since Albert Einstein. With similar interests -- discovering the ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

Stephen Hawking's computer-generated voice is so iconic that it's trademarked — The filmmakers behind The Theory of Everything had to get Hawking's personal permission to use the voice in his ...

Beloved scientist Stephen Hawking, who overcame a debilitating disease to continue probing the mysteries of the universe, died Wednesday at the age of 76. Hawking authored numerous books ...