In 2015, a piece of equipment at an observatory in the US moved one quintillionth (10-18) of a meter. This tiny movement was ...

Before I over-analyze this short scene, let me add a caveat about my philosophy on science and stories ... objects that have mass will have a gravitational force pulling them together.

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space?

Scientists have new evidence that the fabric of space and time is rippling with gravitational waves as big as the Milky Way. The waves could be created by some of the biggest black holes in the ...

In some ways, the story of gravity is also the story of physics, with some of the field's biggest names finding fame by defining the force that ruled their lives. But even after more than 400 ...

(Some versions of the story have the apple falling and hitting ... Standing on Earth's surface, the planet's mass creates a gravitational force sufficient to accelerate any object downward ...

As the story goes, mathematician Sir Isaac ... He would later develop the law of universal gravitation. But gravity — that invisible force that draws objects to the center of the Earth ...

"According to Einstein's theory, gravity is not a force but emerges due to the geometry of the four-dimensional spacetime continuum, or spacetime for short," says Heefer. "And it's central to the ...

If gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces, how can the Sun’s gravity affect distant and low-mass objects such as those in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud? It is true that gravity ...