Huge objects in the universe distort space and time with the force of their gravity, scientists said after a NASA probe confirmed two key parts of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

"Einstein survives," chuckled Francis Everitt, Stanford University physicist and principal investigator for Gravity Probe B (GP-B), one of the US space agency's longest running projects.

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The physics experiment was more than four decades in the making, and finally launched in 2004.

"In Einstein's universe, space and time are warped by gravity. The Earth distorts the space around it very slightly by its gravity," he said, explaining the Jewish physicist's theory devised nearly 100 years ago, long before the technology existed to test it.