A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The ...

Albert Einstein was arguably the most famous scientist ... offer to run a small country (that he turned down), here are 32 ...

On January 29, 1931, the world's premier physicist, Albert Einstein, and its foremost astronomer, Edwin Hubble, settled into the plush leather seats of a sleek Pierce-Arrow touring car for a visit ...

Albert Einstein is one of the most recognized and well-known scientists of the century. His theories solved centuries-old problems in physics and rocked even non-physicists' view of the world.

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The rarely observed rings are named for mathematician and physicist Albert Einstein. His general theory of relativity predicted that light could bend and brighten around objects across the cosmos.

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but acting more like Albert Einstein predicted in his 1915 general theory of relativity. Cosmologists since 1998 have theorized that a mysterious invisible force dubbed dark energy was pushing the ...

In 1914, Max Planck persuaded Albert Einstein to come to Berlin by offering the young physicist attractive conditions. Planck was thus one of the first people to recognise the importance of the theory ...