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 ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that Mars clocks tick slightly faster—and fluctuate over the ...

For many of us, the days can start to bleed together. With exception of the rare special occasion, most of our days are more or less the same and it can sometimes feel like you’re living the same day ...

Do you know what connects Edwin Hubble’s theory for an expanding universe and Albert Einstein’s cosmological constant? The “biggest blunder” of course! Can’t make head or tail? A.S.Ganesh fills you in ...

Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality. When you purchase through links on our ...

Albert Einstein was well known in Princeton for his generosity. But Jack Rosenberg remembers the time Einstein's colleagues asked him to turn the tables and help give the famous scientist a gift. "The ...

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy lifting was more challenging than I initially thought." When you purchase ...