Astronomers have long been puzzled by a cosmic mystery: planets orbiting two stars—like Star Wars’ Tatooine—are surprisingly rare, even though they should be common. New research suggests the culprit ...

Scientists have tested gravity across some of the largest structures in the universe and ...

“With so many unanswered questions, gravity remains one of the most fascinating areas of research,” Patricio Gallardo, one of ...

If you understand how things work,” she says, “you can do things with that knowledge.” But she’s in this to solve an ...

Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses in never-before-seen ...

A study of 300,000 galaxies confirms that gravity follows Newton's law and deepens the mystery of dark matter.

Albert Einstein's general theories of relativity have been used to create tiny microscopic robots that can essentially "swim" ...

Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and theoretical physicists ...

A Gravity Theory That Could Rewrite the Universe’s First Moments The first fraction of a second after the Big Bang has always posed a problem. Physics can describe a great deal about the universe ...

Gravity has been tested extremely well inside the solar system. On cosmic scales, direct tests are harder. This study pushes ...

The Big Bang may be a Big Bogus. A team of physicists at the University of Portsmouth theorize that the universe was created ...