In theory, this should create a slight electric field around our planet, as well as others like it. Hints of the electric field's existence were first detected in 1968 by spacecraft flying over ...

The gravitational field can be used to determine the distribution of mass ... Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL Team) Swirling around the planet’s equator, the ...

Our solar system is the only one known to have life inside. While scientists are searching for water in other planets, a new ...

Researchers studying an acoustic effect in high-powered light bulbs have developed a system that mimics the gravitational field around planets and stars. The team demonstrated that sound waves in ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have glimpsed a young star outside the Milky Way galaxy that’s ringed by a dense disk where planets may ... more powerful its gravitational field becomes, thereby ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we look at our Universe, where our own galaxy contains some 400 billion stars, and there are around ten planets for every ... temporarily bending and amplifying its light due to the planet’s ...

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