Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are holes.

A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity may be over 100 years old, but a 16-year-long investigation of extreme stars has shown that it is still the best description of gravity we have. An ...

BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...

In this last part of our series on recently digitized books from the Wenner Collection, we are focusing on works that ...

It was co-written with his lifelong friend, the Swiss engineer Michele Besso. LONDON -- A rare manuscript by Albert Einstein that changed the course of modern science was just sold for over 13.3 ...

An international team led by Japanese researchers has made a 3D map of 3000 galaxies 13 billion light years from Earth, and found that Einstein’s general theory of relativity is still valid. Since it ...

PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - A manuscript co-authored by Albert Einstein, offering a rare insight into the legendary physicist's thinking leading up to his general theory of relativity, was sold in an ...

Since 1915 when Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, scientists have worked on testing its limits, and with the results of this 16-year test, it still holds up. Professor ...

Quantum mechanics and relativity are the two pillars of modern physics. However, for over a century, their treatment of space ...

The answer comes from a counterintuitive result of special relativity, a field of physics which is notoriously difficult to ...