In 1704, Isaac Newton sat down with pen and paper and tried to calculate the end of the world. He didn’t use a telescope or a ...

A collection of modest domestic items has been unearthed during a dig led by the UK’s National Trust and York Archaeology ...

Sir Isaac Newton’s prediction of doomsday was scribbled below a series of mathematical calculations, revealing his ...

Isaac Newton's law of gravity, which was made public in 1687, is being questioned as physicists try and define our universe; theories about dark matter and even more mysterious dark energy have ...

Crown. 345 pp. $24 Even those of us with only dim memories of high school physics may recall enough to associate Isaac Newton with laws of gravity and laws of motion, but even the more learned ...

What exactly is gravity, and how does it work? From Newton’s early groundbreaking discoveries to Einstein’s revolutionary ...

The copy of Isaac Newton 's seminal treatise Opticks that he had purchased some 20 years before turned out to be from Newton's own personal library, believed lost for many decades.

Isaac Newton connected the two motions in a way that revolutionized physics and made space travel possible. Photograph: Ray Massey/Getty Images ...

A Toast to Newton and a Long-Lived 'Principia' Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving Isaac Newton a party to celebrate publication ...

Isaac Newton's law of gravity, which was made public in 1687, is being questioned as physicists try and define our universe; theories about dark matter and even more mysterious dark energy have ...

Isaac Newton's law of gravity, which was made public in 1687, is being questioned as physicists try and define our universe; theories about dark matter and even more mysterious dark energy have ...