General relativity stands as one of the bedrock theories in modern physics. Its strange view of relative time and space has been confirmed by countless experimental and observational tests, from ...

A new physics paper proposes modifications to Einstein’s theory of relativity that could solve one of the biggest issues ...

Three physicists have proposed a modification to Einstein’s general relativity that, if confirmed, could eliminate the ...

A star known as S0-2 (the blue and green object in this artist’s rendering) made its closest approach to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way in 2018. (Nicole Fuller / National ...

A team of physicists has proposed a specific modification to Einstein’s general relativity that could eliminate the Big Bang ...

There are few scientific concepts that are as famous as Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, but even the iconic theory isn't set in stone. Einstein's theory of general relativity states ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always ...

A century ago, Albert Einstein became famous. Sure, he was already well-known among physicists. But the world at large learned his name only after November 1919, when news broke that his theory of ...

Since 1915 when Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, scientists have worked on testing its limits, and with the results of this 16-year test, it still holds up. Professor ...

The Big Bang refers to that gigantic explosion responsible for setting up the universe to grow into the world we observe ...