Stephen Hawking was one of the few figures in human history who reshaped what we believed about the vast universe. A man who defied the medical diagnosis of a life-threatening disease, Hawking was a ...

Hmmm, I wonder how they're going to handle this one. It's a messy tale. In November, Focus Features will release a new movie, The Theory of Everything, which describes what happened to the young ...

Stephen Hawking was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author whose study and work on black holes and the universe made him one of the most recognisable figures in the field of science.

Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei’s death (January 8, 1642). Guest-starred, as himself, on “The Big Bang Theory,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation” ...