Stephen Hawking's eerie alien theory might explain why we've never been contacted ...

Hawking's dark theory: The 'dark forest' hypothesis warns that intelligent life may avoid contact to protect itself from perceived threats. New detection methods: Scientists propose using narrowband ...

NEW YORK -- An Internet investor has enlisted famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to help him with a futuristic plan for seeking life in outer space. Yuri Milner ...

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian-born billionaire Yuri Milner on Monday announced an ambitious bid to combine vast computing capacity with the world's most powerful telescopes to ...