Gravity feels steady. You drop a set of keys, and they fall the same way every time. That reliability makes it tempting to ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

A new study has revealed that gravity's effect on Earth is constantly shaping the surface of our planet. When our planet formed, it did so by pulling dust and rock toward its gravitational field. As ...

The picture above is not actually a map of the topography * (height variation) of the Indian Ocean seafloor, as much as it looks like it. It’s actually a map of the change in the Earth’s gravity field ...

This update of a classic nursery rhyme was inspired by astronomers in the US, who by serendipity have found a new method of measuring the strength of gravity on the surface of a star. Surface gravity ...

For distant stars with planets orbiting them, this gravitational information is key in determining whether any of those planets can harbor life. The new method is described in a study published today ...

Astronomers have found a clever new way to slice and dice the flickering light from a distant star in a way that reveals the strength of gravity at its surface. That is important because a star’s ...

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