Albert Einstein, a revolutionary physicist, championed lifelong learning and the power of questioning. His quote emphasizes ...

The phenomenon, caused by a rapidly spinning black hole, confirms a general relativity prediction by Einstein, made more than a century ago. The process, named Lense-Thirring precession or ...

EXCLUSIVE: A big-screen adaptation of Dr. Ronald Mallett’s memoir “Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time ...

Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and his discovery of ...

Clocks on Mars tick faster by about 477 microseconds each Earth day, a new study suggests. This difference is significantly more than that for our moon, posing potential challenges for future crewed ...

For the first time, scientists have observed a swirling distortion in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole—an ...

Black holes are notoriously difficult to spot unless they are active, and one type of activity is the destruction of a star, ...

Scientists detect a 20-day wobble from a star-shredding black hole, confirming spacetime twisting predicted by Einstein.

Though there were setbacks on climate change and funding for science this year, there was still plenty of amazing discoveries ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

Olalla, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Seville, has described the direct link between ...

Olalla’s recent work argues that the disappearance of specific heat at absolute zero—long treated as part of the third law of thermodynamics—can instead be derived directly from the second law, ...