Astronomers scanning the skies with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have pulled off a feat that even Albert Einstein had declared all but impossible: they’ve witnessed the subtle bending of one star’s ...

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How do you measure the mass of a star? Well, according to famed cosmologist Albert Einstein, you can try to solve this problem by looking at the subtle bending of starlight as it encounters the ...

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Matter with negative mass, a seeming impossibility, could actually have existed in the early universe, a new study shows. A novel solution to Einstein’s equations for gravity permits the existence of ...

Celebrating a native son who had to flee the Nazis, Germany opened festivities Wednesday marking the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death.

The best planet, Mercury, is in the midst of telling us something important about our sun: It’s losing mass. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has a history of helping us study gravity. Albert ...

Roughly a century ago, Albert Einstein predicted that whenever starlight passes by a closer object, that object's gravity would act as a sort of lens, magnifying and distorting the light. While ...