The Sun is not nailed to the center of the solar system. It moves, wobbles, and traces a small loop through space, tugged by the combined gravity of every planet in orbit around it. Yet the whole ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

Research shows Mars' gravitational pull affects Earth's deep-sea currents and climate, causing warming cycles every 2.4 ...

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim that the space agency was hiding knowledge about an event that could result ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

Have you heard the rumor online that the Earth’s gravity will be turned off for 7 seconds this August 12th? If you have, don’t panic. This is not going to happen. The original conspiracy theory that ...

A frozen continent at the bottom of the world sits over the deepest dip in Earth’s gravitational pull, a feature that has persisted for roughly 70 million years. Scientists have long known about this ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests this mysterious ingredient may not be necessary after all. Using an ...