Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

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What is gravity without mass? Both Newton's revolutionary laws describing its universal effect and Einstein's proposal of a dimpled spacetime, we've thought of gravity as exclusively within the domain ...

Learn about two black hole mergers in 2024 that experts revisited with new information from gravitational waves, confirming ...

For many years, physicists have wondered whether a certain well-known exotic material may experience gravitational repulsion from the Earth. That material is antimatter, and physicists at CERN have ...

Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

In everyday conversation, and even on our site, we treat the terms mass and weight like synonyms. But scientifically, the two are related but very separate. The mass of an object is an intrinsic ...

According to the study, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS showcased its first sign of a non-gravitational acceleration at perihelion, or the point of closest approach to the Sun. The non-gravitational ...

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