Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed ...

The new data provide the clearest evidence yet for long-held fundamental predictions by Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

More than a century after Albert Einstein proposed it, his theory of general relativity has passed another test. With giant telescopes pointed at the center of our galaxy, a team of European ...

(CNN) — To state the obvious, Albert Einstein was one of the smartest and most impactful scientific minds in history, with a long track record of staggering predictions. Those predictions have been ...

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who revolutionized physics, changing our understanding of the ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been remarkably successful in describing the gravity of stars and planets, but it doesn’t seem to apply perfectly on all scales. When you purchase ...

A prediction made by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity has come true as astrophysicists have detected light coming from behind a black hole. A team of scientists made the analysis ...

In 1905, a 26-year-old patent office clerk named Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity, advancing physics research worldwide. In 2005, the World Year of Physics is celebrated to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Everyone knows Albert Einstein was a genius, but can you ...