The German physicist revolutionized modern science and became a critical voice on the ethical responsibility of scientific ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

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 was a distant dream.

Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational ...

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 ...

In 1905, Albert Einstein revolutionized physics by demonstrating that time is not absolute but relative to the observer's ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves.

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A new study combining two of Albert Einstein's famous predictions suggests that ripples in space-time can combine into 'gravitational lasers', firing out of black holes in random directions across the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Albert Einstein created a set of equations to predict the nature of our universe. Over a century later, unprecedented results from a group of scientists are consistent with his ...