Scientists say fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe—not particles and waves.

In 1916, Albert Einstein discovered that his theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves — ...

Albert Einstein created the theory that would dictate everything in physics. Over 115 later, what the German scientists ...

A new kind of stellar explosion provides a novel way to probe the distant universe, according to new results published today ...

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on gravitational waves, which helped confirm Einstein’s general theory of ...

Scientists are rethinking the universe’s deepest mysteries using numerical relativity, complex computer simulations of ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of ...

New research is challenging our fundamental understanding of the universe’s expansion GENEVA, Switzerland — For over two decades, astronomers have been puzzled by the mysterious “dark energy ...

To astronomers in the 1990s, these three facts were self-evident: The universe is expanding; all the matter in the universe ...

Albert Einstein was a thinker ahead of his time. Born March 14, 1879, Einstein entered a world where the dwarf planet Pluto had yet to be discovered, and the idea of spaceflight was a distant ...

The universe rarely fails to amaze. One of its latest surprises—nicknamed the “Einstein zig-zag”—reveals a stunning arrangement of galaxies and a distant quasar.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Albert Einstein created a set of equations to predict the nature of our universe. Over a century later, unprecedented results from a group of scientists are consistent with his ...