Researchers have discovered there was an anomaly in Earth's gravitational field between 2006 and 2008, potentially caused by ...

In orbit, astronauts float weightless because they’re in continuous free-fall around Earth. To recreate gravity, engineers ...

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.

Astronomers have taken their clearest look yet at how some of the biggest stars in our galaxy are born—and it turns out the ...

Gravity is the unseen force that shapes the universe, yet we rarely give it much thought. First explained by Sir Isaac Newton, it is the pull that draws objects toward one another based on their mass ...

There are some things in life that just sort of happen. Desks get covered in dust and scraps of paper. Clothes get dirty and the laundry basket fills up. Weeds slowly creep across an untended ...

Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency to get more disordered. Now this idea might finally be testable ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

China successfully debuted a powerful centrifuge that could support scientific pursuits across a variety of fields.