In honor of Einstein's birthday, we're revisiting a 2013 conversation with physicist and author A. Douglas Stone about ...

BOULDER- Black holes, time travel and E= mc^2. They are all related to Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. How many of us, though, can actually explain any of it? This year, Einstein's theory ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...

Solar eclipses occasion lots of excitement and pique the public's interest in astronomical phenomena. Eclipses can also expand our understanding of the universe in profound ways. In fact, astronomical ...

You may have learned about the theory of relativity—or at least seen E = mc 2 scribbled on a chalkboard somewhere—but nothing compares to hearing Albert Einstein explain it in his own words. In this ...

Cornell professors Saul Teukolsky, astrophysics, and Larry Kidder, astronomy, played an instrumental role in the first detection of gravitational waves, a century after Albert Einstein predicted their ...

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 ...

1915 and the theory of General Relativity: In 1911, Einstein starting talking about the idea that space is curved. In 1915 Albert Einstein put fourth a theory that mass, or a large object, like the ...

Very few people outside of Germany had ever heard of Albert Einstein in the early part of 1919. Even his mother was once unsure of his greatness. Asked if her son would amount to anything, she once ...

It is one of history’s more irritatingly on-brand coincidences that Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day, as though the universe itself decided that if it was going to manufacture the patron saint of ...