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  Astronomers have used the sharp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to repeat a century-old test of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The Hubble team measured the mass of a white dwarf, the burned-out remnant of a normal star, by seeing how much it deflects the light from a background star. This observation represents the first time Hubble has ...

Star Trek-style ‘warp speed’ space travel between galaxies is theoretically possible, based on Einstein’s Relativity theory, insists astrophysicist from the University of Sydney in Australia. Professor Geraint Lewis, from the University of Sydney, says the futuristic concept is possible if we know how to build a warp drive. “It’s theoretically possible, but can we ever build a warp drive? We ...