From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

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 ...

Based on the results of our fact-checking, Tempo’s Fact-Checking Team concludes that the claim that the Earth will lose its ...

The GRAVITY instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) has made the first direct observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. This method revealed a complex ...

More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet’s existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus.

Every planet in our solar system is essentially round. But out in the universe, are there any planets that aren't spherical? Technically, planets are round, by definition; they need to have enough ...

Shedding light on the gravity of the situation. Most people do not realize that many of the stars and heavenly bodies they see in the sky no longer exist. In fact, many have ceased to exist for ...