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

Famed physicist Albert Einstein at the blackboard. Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity revolutionized science and, once proven observationally, brought the physicist international fame.

Scientists are using observations of black holes to test the limits of general relativity, aiming to identify potential inconsistencies or incompleteness in Einstein's theory. Multiple methods are ...

This week’s 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity is a geeky cause for celebration, but what’s arguably the concept’s toughest test has just gotten under way. General ...

PARIS, France — Albert Einstein’s handwritten notes for the theory of relativity fetched a record 11.6 million euros ($13 million) at an auction in Paris on Tuesday. The manuscript had been valued at ...

On this day, 100 years ago, an unknown German patents clerk presented a scientific principle that would change the world forever. A century later, Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity is ...

‘Most valuable ever’ Einstein notes on relativity to be auctioned Christie’s expects handwritten manuscript of theory’s early version to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for sale in November; ...

It was the discovery that changed the universe - or rather our understanding of the universe. One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity. So for the next ...

Like Max Planck, Albert Einstein first studied mathematics because he was told that everything interesting in physics had already been discovered. But in 1905, Einstein, a young cleark at the Swiss ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the most extreme astrophysical object located within a million light-years of Earth. With an estimated four million solar masses, it's the ...