In the summer of 1939, a quiet conversation at Albert Einstein’s Long Island home helped push the United States toward the ...

A sweeping history of the DOE’s National Labs—from the Manhattan Project to fusion breakthroughs—and their impact on U.S. science and innovation.

This scuba dive uncovered something that raised immediate concern. Due to the nature of the discovery, police were contacted ...

The new Doomsday Clock time has been set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Here’s what it means.

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

On July 2, 2025, the China-led Einstein Probe (EP) space telescope detected an exceptionally bright X-ray source whose ...

The Einstein–de Haas effect, which links the spin of electrons to macroscopic rotation, has now been demonstrated in a ...

Ripples in space-time from a pair of merging black holes have been recorded in unprecedented detail, enabling physicists to test predictions of general relativity ...

The sharpest black hole collision ever detected just gave Einstein another win—and raised hopes that the next one might ...

A newly detected gravitational wave, GW250114, is giving scientists their clearest look yet at a black hole collision—and a powerful way to test Einstein’s theory of gravity. Its clarity allowed ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation ...