Albert Einstein, everyone’s favorite wild-haired genius with a mischievous grin, is more than just a pop culture icon whose legend lives on today. He’s arguably the most influential scientist of the ...

Albert Einstein is famous for his contributions to physics, even predicting this strange and fascinating gravitational effect, now visible to modern scientists.

The poet Blake wrote that you can see a world in a grain of sand. But even better, you can see a universe in an atom!

Walter Isaacson’s big new biography of Albert Einstein is sure to be one of the most admired and popular books of the year. Whatever your background in science, “Einstein: His Life and Universe” is a ...

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

Wormholes, conceptual tunnels slicing through spacetime, offer a theoretical shortcut between two distant cosmic points.

The cosmos is a unique laboratory for testing the laws of physics, in particular those of Euler and Einstein. Euler described the movements of celestial objects, while Einstein described the way in ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding of the evolution of the universe and the growth of ...

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

The universe rarely fails to amaze. One of its latest surprises—nicknamed the “Einstein zig-zag”—reveals a stunning arrangement of galaxies and a distant quasar. Together, they produce a gravitational ...