Having failed to achieve their intended orbit following a launch in August 2014, a pair of ESA Galileo satellites are being re-tasked to test Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. More precisely, ...

Albert Einstein’s most famous work, the General Theory of Relativity, is being put to the test by two Galileo satellites, due to an accident in their flight patterns. E=Mc 2, or so we’re told. Well, ...

If Einstein is still alive today, he could have been delighted to know that his theory of general relativity (GR) has been proven right again. A European research satellite (the Micro-Satellite à ...

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When two Galileo global navigation satellites were launched into the wrong orbit last year, scientists decided to turn the multimillion dollar accident into the most rigorous test yet of Einstein’s ...

Pop quiz, hotshot. You've just launched a pair of GPS satellites into the wrong orbit, rendering them useless for navigation. What do you do? If you're the European Space Agency (ESA), you re-purpose ...

In the 17th century, famed astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei is said to have climbed to the top of the Tower of Pisa and dropped two different-sized cannonballs. He was trying to demonstrate ...

1. Who invented relativity? Bzzzt — wrong. Galileo hit on the idea in 1639, when he showed that a falling object behaves the same way on a moving ship as it does in a motionless building. 2. And ...

Two satellites constructed and launched by the European Space Agency will spend the next year testing Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which was proposed in a paper the famed German ...

1. Who invented relativity? Bzzzt — wrong. Galileo hit on the idea in 1639, when he showed that a falling object behaves the same way on a moving ship as it does in a motionless building. 2. And ...