Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are holes.

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense ...

Research teams on both sides of the Atlantic have shown that precise modeling of the universe and its contents will change the detailed understanding of the evolution of the universe and the growth of ...

For over a century, Einstein's general theory of relativity has been key to understanding gravity. But new research suggests this theory "glitches" in the farthest reaches of space. That doesn't mean ...

An international team led by Japanese researchers has made a 3D map of 3000 galaxies 13 billion light years from Earth, and found that Einstein’s general theory of relativity is still valid. Since it ...

A new software package detailed by Chinese scientists promises to tell what time it is on the moon, accounting for effects of ...

China has quietly solved a problem that only becomes obvious once you try to live and work off-world: clocks on the moon do ...

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Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...