Little is known about the circumstances that led the teenage Albert Einstein not to follow through with his bar mitzvah, but the decision foreshadowed his eventual journey to figure out a ...

But what if the answer to some—maybe even all—of these problems isn’t a radical new theory but rather an old one, devised almost a century ago by none other than Albert Einstein himself?

Albert Einstein is justly famous for devising his theory of relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of space, time, gravity, and the universe. Relativity also showed us that matter and ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Einstein rings occur when light from a distant galaxy bends to form a glowing ring around another ...

Astronomers have identified the closest ever Einstein ring, a rare phenomenon where light from a further-off galaxy is bent by the gravity of a galaxy closer to Earth. The ring was previously ...

Few people have spent as much time immersed in the non-scientific side of Albert Einstein’s thinking as Benyamin Cohen. Einstein was, to put it extremely mildly, a pretty smart guy.

Einstein's 1939 letter to Roosevelt, warning of atomic weapons, sold at auction for $3.9 million. Einstein later regretted the letter for its ultimate role in helping to develop the atomic bomb ...

He is known as one of the great minds in 20th-century science. But this week, Albert Einstein is making headlines for his advice on how to live a happy life — and a tip that paid off.

Now Netflix has dropped a much slimmer but thematically similar docudrama, Einstein and the Bomb, that packs a wallop in detailing how the man widely considered the father of atomic energy came to ...

He studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and is the author of Einstein in Time and Space Albert Einstein’s father, Hermann, was proud that Jewish rituals were not ...