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

As they whirl around in low-Earth orbit, satellite configurations are far more sensitive to changes in Earth's gravity field ...

NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon’s gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of ...

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

GRASS will launch about the Hera mission in October 2024, if all goes according to plan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

Our readers agree that in the unlikely event you were able to approach a neutron star, it would look very smooth and bright ...

If a hypothetical Mars crew operated this machine for 14 months those astronauts would create enough oxygen to let them break free of the Martian surface gravity. When you purchase through links on ...

Your weight changes on other planets and moons due to different gravitational pulls. Weight is how much gravity pulls on you; mass (amount of matter) stays the same. Newton's Law of Gravitation ...

Six hundred and thirty-five light years away from Earth, there is a world that seems to promise something almost unimaginable: a planet covered in a vast liquid ocean, where survival might actually be ...

Assessing trends of sea surface wave, wind, and coastal wave setup is of considerable scientific and practical importance in view of recent and projected long-term sea level rise due to global warming ...

Every now and again I’ll get a weird thought in my head that sits there demanding an answer. Sometimes it’s trivial, and sometimes it sounds silly but then leads to some fun insights. This time my ...