The origin of our Universe remains one of the greatest enigmas of science, a question that seems to defy the limits of our ...

Asking what existed before the Big Bang is often dismissed as meaningless, since traditional physics breaks down when pushed ...

A team of scientists claims a computational tool for studying black hole collisions could be our best bet for answering ...

Tim Ellis, an unassuming 31-year-old with glasses who shuffles around his sprawling rocket factory in designer sneakers, has what every space company founder longs for: a seemingly endless well of ...

The review shows how numerical relativity transforms cosmology, replacing shortcuts with full simulations of Einstein’s equations.

According to Newtonian physics, the gravitational attraction between two masses is proportional to the inverse of the square ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Einstein's theory of special relativity teaches us that time is relative. But what does it mean ...

Few ideas in modern science have reshaped our understanding of reality more profoundly than space-time—the interwoven fabric of space and time at the heart of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.

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 ...

Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the launchpad, but the vehicle experienced problems during the second stage of its flight. By Oliver Whang ...

Brad DeLong, in the course of something completely different, suggests that the theory of relativity really isn't all that hard. At least, if your standard of comparison is quantum mechanics. He's ...