Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...

God does not play dice with the universe,” Albert Einstein famously declared in 1927, sparking one of the most enduring ...

The MICROSCOPE mission tested the weak equivalence principle with free-falling objects in a satellite. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and feasting on its stellar material. The observation is ...

GPS accuracy relies on Einstein's relativity theories to correct satellite timing errors that would otherwise cause 6+ mile ...

The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

Albert Einstein’s name is synonymous with “genius,” and his wild hair is a trope of its own for mad scientists and professors in popular culture. Einstein’s discoveries led to modern-day inventions ...

This article explores the unsettling story of how Albert Einstein's brain was removed without consent after his death, its journey through decades of storage, and the implications it had on our ...

Einstein was by far the greatest scientist of the 21st century and history as a whole. Space travel, GPS, laser beams, nuclear energy, supercomputers, science fiction, and so much for the world of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Einstein's brain had extraordinary folding patterns in several regions, which may help explain ...

There had to be something anatomically different about Einstein's brain that made him so smart, right? A new study says no, not true. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Terence Hines of Pace University.