The latest discoveries about Vesta challenge its traditional classification. This giant asteroid might actually be a remnant ...

the passage of time is relatively different in regions that experience different gravitational fields. When a planet is closer to the strong gravitational field of a massive star, planet ...

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 ...

University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jeremy Darling is pursuing a new way of measuring the universe's gravitational ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

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

The Moon has long captivated scientists with its dual nature. While its near side always faces Earth, the far side or 'dark ...

Every 90 days data from a different section of the sky would become available. Every time a new field ... planets are the rulers of their planetary system because of their dominant gravitational ...

“Our study shows that the Moon’s interior is not uniform: the side facing Earth (the nearside) is warmer and more geologically active deep down than the far side. This difference is linked to the Moon ...

It’s the same with our moon — it’s caught in Earth’s gravitational field ... civilization — but its planet exists within a solar system with three different suns. Because of the three ...