Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

A revolutionary RNA mapping method could let us learn from history’s greatest thinkers—starting with Einstein himself.

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Auctioneers think it might be the highest price ever paid for a violin not previously owned by a concert violinist.

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's latest image shows eight spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that ...

Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...