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An attempt to prove Einstein’s hallmark theory of gravity revealed something even freakier: an unprecedented flash…

The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors are set to resume their hunt for gravitational waves on April 1.…

The screenwriter of Wonder Woman 1984 might be heading to a mysterious Marvel project. We’re getting Frozen 2 a…

If you read enough science news, you’ll know that there’s a long list of experiments attempting to “prove Einstein wr…

It would be hard to overstate how resilient the theory of general relativity has been. In its hundred-plus-year…

On November 30, 2016, around 100,000 people all over the world logged online and played a video game. Together, they…

It turns out we may have Mercury’s orbit wrong. Not by much, but by enough that a future mission can measure it,…

When you look up into the night sky, you see lots of stars—but all of them are members of our own Milky Way galaxy.…

Even if you don’t know much physics, you probably know one of its core tenets: an object at rest stays at rest, and…

The most basic physical laws you’ve learned—those drafted up by Isaac Newton in the 17th century—don’t work for…

The image of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out adorns the racks at Spencer’s gift stores across America. But…

Bad news: Humans will probably never explore the area around a black hole, at least while you’re alive. That’s…

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, called general relativity, is probably the best physics theory ever formulated.…

Today, Christie’s auctioned off the well-worn leather jacket of Albert Einstein. You may know him as the Nobel…

The hunt for a hypothetical planet called Vulcan near Mercury fascinated author Tom Levenson for years. It took some…

The art of handwritten script is lost on most of us keyboard-attached slobs. But over the past few years, a small…

On April 17, 1955, the greatest scientist of his generation checked himself into Princeton Hospital due to chest…

On Friday Digital Einstein went live, bringing with it a treasure trove of Einstein letters, correspondences,…

Check your watch. What time is it? But wait, you've actually been moving and accelerating, and according to…