Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

Heat from tidal forces remelted the Moon’s crust, says new reesarch, which may explain why the Moon is older than some ...

The astronauts on the I.S.S. — including two who were scheduled to return months ago — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating ...

Researchers at Stanford University, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, or ECMWF, and Oak Ridge National ...

Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...

Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the zoom-in section, the underlying structure of matter in our Universe is easy to see. Their results confirm the validity of Einstein's ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will perform a close flyby of Earth on December 12, utilizing a gravity assist to adjust its ...

The gravity of Earth, denoted by g, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation and the centrifugal force . It is a vector quantity, whose direction ...

This is roughly as close to Earth as today’s geosynchronous communications and weather satellites, and about 10 times closer than the Moon is today. Because the force of gravity is stronger at ...

The mystery of gravity has captivated us for centuries ... This passion for commonplace explanations culminates in analyzing the image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87. I ...

the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, or ECMWF, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the lab's Summit supercomputer to better understand atmospheric gravity waves, which ...