A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes far below reshape the planet's gravity field over millions of years.

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity ...

About 85 percent of the matter in the universe is thought to be dark matter, yet there is still no confirmed direct detection of any dark matter particle. Ground-based detectors, space-based ...

Something wasn’t making sense—and then scientists realized they were looking in the wrong place.

Why is Antarctica frozen? It is in the polar region, which is one explanation. But something deep underneath the continent ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

NASA's head of planetary defence has revealed what keeps her up at night - tens of thousands of 'city killer' asteroids that remain undetected.

For the last 25 years, most scientists have believed that about 70% of the universe is formed by something called ‘’dark ...