A tiny spacecraft launched on a laser beam can travel to the nearest black hole within a human lifetime, according to ...

Albert Einstein isn't one of the most revered names in the world of food, but he could have been in this revolutionary appliance took off in the home market.

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A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new rogue planet that was orphaned from its home planetary ...

Scientists have been trying unsuccessfully to poke holes in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity for a full century. So far, however, Einstein’s theory has had it easy.

Albert Einstein created his most famous theory amid personal strife, political tension and a scientific rivalry that almost cost him the glory of his discovery The general theory of relativity ...

Fancy a robot chess partner to test your moves on? Perhaps a robotic pet dog? Or a life-sized replica of physicist Albert ...

Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. He became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and died in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 18, 1955. (Getty Images) ...

We talked with historian of science Michael Gordin, Princeton’s dean of the college, who has taught the popular course “The Einstein Era,” about the life and times of Princeton’s most famous resident, ...

When an extraordinary cache of love letters written by Albert Einstein to his first wife between 1898 and 1903 went up for auction last December, the historic collection was expected to fetch up ...