From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In November 1915, in a lecture before the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein described an idea that upended humanity’s view of the universe.

Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a ...

A newly developed solution to the equations at the heart of Albert Einstein's most revolutionary theory suggests hypothetical stars called "nestars" could be made from stacked gravitational stars, or ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Only a year before, Einstein had finally ...

It is the first Friday of the New Year, and given a lot of predictions in the general press that have been not just gloomy but downright apocalyptic, it seems like the perfect time to start off this ...

There is a fundamental problem in physics. A single number, called the cosmological constant, bridges the microscopic world of quantum mechanics and the macroscopic world of Einstein's theory of ...