Albert Einstein is more than just a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed the theory of relativity and formula E=mc2.

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites continuously beam down ultra-precise timestamps, each message essentially saying, ...

Researcher whose contribution to science was described as ‘close to Einstein’ specialised in the study of subatomic particles ...

Einstein’s theory of relativity reshaped our understanding of time space and gravity But deep inside its equations lies a ...

Gravitational waves are energy-carrying waves produced by the acceleration or disturbance of massive objects. These waves, ...

Two decades later, von Laue gifted the items to Margarete Hommrich, an Einstein admirer from Braunschweig. Her family kept ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...