Albert Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, but not for relativity—the theory that made him famous. This article ...

The German physicist revolutionized modern science and became a critical voice on the ethical responsibility of scientific ...

Thomas Harding’s “The Einstein Vendetta” tries, with missionary zeal, to uncover the facts of a long-ago crime.

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to test it. Some theories of quantum gravity suggest light might ...

Our understanding of the universe may be completely wrong.

The Clearest Signal Yet Detected The event, dubbed GW250114, became known in January when researchers spotted it with the ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) is going from politics to the page, leaving the thrills and chills of Congress to release a ...

Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius, and his legacy is omnipresent. He’s name-dropped in countless rap songs, and E=mc2 is considered one of the world’s most famous equations. He’s so revered, ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

Do you know what connects Edwin Hubble’s theory for an expanding universe and Albert Einstein’s cosmological constant? The ...