Eddington found the apparent location of the stars had shifted, just as Einstein predicted. Further proofs of Einstein's theory came with advancing technology through the 1960s and continue in the ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...

Before Einstein, special relativity, and E = mc2, what was the prevailing theory on the Sun's seemingly eternal energy?

Einstein's contribution to physics was so great he still remains a superstar. But physicists Arthur Eddington, Hermann Weyl and mathematician David Hilbert were not so fortunate, with some facing ...

Einstein himself tried to prove that such an object—a black hole, it was later christened—could not exist. Like Eddington, he loathed what would be found at a black hole’s center ...

To many, Einstein became a symbol of postwar rapprochement and a return to reason. As Eddington wrote to him less than a month after the eclipse announcement, “For scientific relations between ...