Make a list of the world's most popular scientists, and Stephen Hawking's name will be near or at the very top of the list. Hawking, the author of A Brief History of Time and a professor at the ...

Stephen Hawking’s paradoxical finding that black holes don’t live forever has profound, unresolved implications for the quest for unifying theories of reality. In essence, what Hawking, who died six ...

LONDON (Reuters) - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. In ...

Stephen Hawking’s 50-year-old theorem on how black holes merge together has been successfully tested thanks to huge advances in gravitational wave astronomy, which helped astronomers catch the waves ...