A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

In the case of the planets in the solar system, for instance, they describe elliptical orbits around the sun ... that is also ...

When a planet is closer to the strong gravitational field of a massive star ... When he realized the only way to get home was to slingshot around the black hole, he knew the time dilation would ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...

Swirling around the planet's equator ... to precisely map the gravitational field around the entire planet. The gravitational field can be used to determine the distribution of mass in the ...

Gravity is "the force by which a planet or other body draws objects ... It's time to get to know how the moon's gravitational field works and answer some other interesting questions about Earth's ...

The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

There is an attractive gravitational ... field, one that NASA used in the 1960s to see how astronauts could move about on the moon. A person lies sideways, supported by slings around their waist ...

Swirling around the planet’s equator ... to precisely map the gravitational field around the entire planet. The gravitational field can be used to determine the distribution of mass in the ...