As they whirl around in low-Earth orbit, satellite configurations are far more sensitive to changes in Earth's gravity field ...

Orienspace's Gravity-1, the world's most powerful solid-fuel rocket, launched from the deck of a ship in the Yellow Sea on ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this familiar force remains one of the biggest puzzles in physics.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant advancements in our understanding of black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity. Plus, ...

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Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

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The experiment shown here was carried out on the International Space Station to see how combustion happens in a 0g ...

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Good news for astronauts, as new research finds that microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme conditions ...

Mahabalipuram's Krishna's Butterball, a massive granite boulder, defies gravity, resting precariously on a tiny incline for ...

A giant pumpkin starts off as the perfect seed. Growers choose seeds that have yielded large pumpkins in the past or test new ...