Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. What is space made of – what does gravity ...
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon — a result of Einstein’s ...
For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...
From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...
NASMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. An account of the century of experimentation that confirmed Einstein's theory of relativity, bringing to life the science and ...
A team of international astronomers have identified a cosmic oddity unlike anything seen before: a galaxy bent by gravity into an Einstein Cross with not four but five distinct images.
What comes to mind when you think of space? Imagine a friend boasting about a spacious building, stadium or museum they recently visited. Do you envision the building as vast and expansive? Is it ...