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

Legendary physicist Albert Einstein was a thinker ahead of his time. Born March 14, 1879, Einstein entered a world where the dwarf planet Pluto had yet to be discovered, and the idea of spaceflight ...

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 ...

In a groundbreaking development, scientists have detected the ringing of black holes following a collision event, confirming ...

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!

What Einstein called his worst mistake, scientists are now depending on to help explain the universe. In 1917, Albert Einstein inserted a term called the cosmological constant into his theory of ...

BOSS, for Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, has measured the distance to faraway galaxies more precisely than ever before, mapping the universe as it existed roughly 6 billion years ago, when ...

It is dangerous to bet against Einstein. Cosmological research shows that the rate at which the Universe expands is increasing, rather than decreasing as had previously been thought. The concept of ...

One hundred years ago, a 36-year-old Albert Einstein presented the complete formulation of the General Theory of Relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Across the world, events and ...

Two new studies that put Einstein's General Theory ofRelativity to the test proved that even after 95 years, there's no messingwith Albert. The pair of independent studies each used observations ...