Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a remarkably intimate portrait of two small galaxies locked in a slow, spiraling ...

If true (and it’s a pretty big “if”), Vopson’s new gravitational study would shake the foundations of the currently accepted view of the universe. In his paper, Vopson writes that his new work could ...

According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force.

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) optics technician inspecting one of LIGO's core optics (mirrors)(AFP/Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab) This has turned ...

You see this all the time in textbooks: This is often described as "the acceleration due to gravity". Is this really the best thing to call this? No. A better name would be "the local gravitational ...

When you travel through the Universe, it isn't just a free ride through empty space. Although you might not think about it very often, there are forces arising from the presence of everything else, ...

Late in the 20th century, scientists discovered something amazing: gravity doesn't just suck, it also blows. This knowledge comes to us by looking at distant supernovae and determining how fast they ...