In orbit, astronauts float weightless because they’re in continuous free-fall around Earth. To recreate gravity, engineers ...

Dynamic galaxy: can the rotation of the spiral galaxy NGC 1232 be explained by MOND? (Courtesy: ESO) Can modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) explain the curious behaviour of rotating galaxies? Two ...

As the possibility of long-duration space exploration becomes more feasible, the issue of how to preserve astronaut health during such missions is becoming increasingly critical. Recently, Russia’s ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Gravity Blocks: The Last Rotation Gravity Blocks is the game that forces you to think in other directions. You have to take gravity under your control to ...

On 10 May 2017, the Focus Times web site published an article positing that a renowned physicist had warned that the widespread use of stress-relieving toys known as 'fidget spinners' could be having ...

Dark energy — a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate — was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle ...

IT is possible to show mathematically that a particle which is located on a rotating object is attracted by all the particles of the object according to the inverse square law. Several important ...

The melting of one of the world's largest ice sheets would alter the Earth's field of gravity and even its rotation in space so much that it would cause sea levels along some coasts to rise faster ...