We tend to think of gravity as being about as constant as it gets. It is the invisible anchor that keeps our feet on the ...

Although Earth is approximately spherical, its gravity field doesn't adhere to the same geometry. In visualizations, it more closely resembles a potato, with bumps and divots. One of the strongest of ...

Heading into space means leaving Earth's gravity behind. Astronauts floating around on the International Space Station might look like they're having fun in the weightless environment, but a lack of ...

In other instances, cyclists may find themselves pedaling hard to progress down an obvious slope, as if gravity is pushing them in the opposite direction. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, you can see gravity’s fingerprint. It’s in the path the moon takes around Earth each night and the humbling thump when you wipe out on an icy patch of sidewalk. The force of ...

We treat gravity as a firm law, but the ground beneath Antarctica tells a ...

Elephants may never fly, but they may have quite a load off their feet in some far distant day. Though scientists generally assume that gravitation is as unchanging as any of nature’s absolute laws, ...

The best way to find buried treasure may be with a quantum gravity sensor. In these devices, free-falling atoms reveal subtle variations in Earth’s gravitational pull at different places. Those ...

If you want to understand gravity, it makes sense to study black holes. Nowhere else can you find so much gravity so conveniently compacted into such a relatively small space. In a way, in fact, black ...