The BBC's Pallab Ghosh explains how Prof Stephen Hawking's final paper resolved a cosmic conundrum Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar ...

Stephen Hawking had been growing increasingly unsteady ... gravity on which Hawking built his theories, he became Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1979, a post he would hold ...

The legacy of Prof Stephen Hawking will live forever, mourners at the theoretical physicist's funeral heard. Prof Hawking, who had motor neurone disease, died on 14 March, aged 76, at his home in ...

A nurse who cared for Professor Stephen Hawking claimed last night that she saw his wife abusing and mistreating him. Elaine Hawking called her disabled 62-year-old husband a cripple, bathed him ...

Stephen Hawking's end of world prediction has been backed by NASA. Here's what you need to know about this prediction.

"Everyone is devastated - especially Stephen's children." For more than three years, Professor Hawking, who is paralysed as a result of motor neurone disease and can speak only through a ...

Professor Stephen Hawking delivers this year’s BBC Reith Lectures on black holes. Professor Hawking takes us through the history of scientific thinking about black holes, and explains how they ...

Stephen Hawking was not only an iconic figure in the fields of theoretical physics and cosmology but also a public intellectual whose influence stretched beyond academia.

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Professor Stephen Hawking’s scientific and personal archive, including letters to his family, has been fully catalogued and ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary ... And in 1979, he was appointed Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, the same post held by Sir Isaac Newton 300 years earlier.