A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a ...

New views of two colliding black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking using Albert Einstein’s theory.

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square ...

Albert Einstein had described the special theory of relativity in 1905. The result of Einstein's thinking about light, this theory introduced brand-new ideas to science. It opened up an ...

Albert Einstein was alone in his Berlin apartment in 1905 when he wrote the first of his famous essays explaining the theory of relativity.

Albert Einstein rose to fame in 1905 after his theory of relativity transformed our understanding of space and time. Einstein was the first to confirm that "no object could travel faster than ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity is our best description of the universe at large scales, but a new observation that reports a "glitch" in gravity around ancient structures could force it ...