Steve Nadis, Author at Astronomy.com

Albert Einstein was already a recognized physicist when he published his theory of general relativity, or gravitation, in 1916. Three years later, he catapulted into an international celebrity when relativity’s first experimental proof came from a solar eclipse. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

How we can understand our universe through math

The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe is available from Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.

The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe

Exotic Objects, Milky Way

Rising star in astronomy: Katie Bouman

Rewinding the clock on Eta Carinae’s “Great Eruption” of 1837

Alien Life, Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight

Galileo Project to search for alien artifacts hiding in the solar system

Alien Life, Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight

Why haven’t we found alien life yet? Blame our closed minds

In search of the galaxy’s magnetic monsters

Why the Event Horizon Telescope took so long to image a black hole

Dark energy: a quirk of gravity?

Profiles in cosmology