Travel to another moon or planet and your weight will change — but not your mass. This is because your weight on other worlds depends on the gravitational force of attraction between you and that ...

An international collaboration led by scientists mainly at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) , Japan, has found that bone and muscle mass are regulated by the altered gravity. The ...

Detail from an Ancient Greek red figure amphora of Theseus killing Procrustes, Louvre Museum. Source: Wikimediacommons.org/Public Domain Procrustes (literally the ...

Something seems to be missing from the universe, and the favored model of physics calls it “dark matter” – but despite a century of searching, it remains a no-show. A new paper proposes an alternative ...

Gravity is the force of action between two objects. It’s called a natural force because it acts at a distance rather than needing to be in contact. Gravity is the force that holds us down on Earth and ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens in the cosmos. It shapes planets and people, bends light into celestial ...