The asteroid Apophis will pass close to Earth in 2029 and will be visible without a telescope, revealing unique changes on ...

After a 10-year effort, physicists got a value for “Big G” that does not settle the debate over one of nature’s hardest ...

Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

Chinese researchers unveiled a gravity detector with world-leading precision last month, potentially expanding the military applications of the technology. It uses a superconducting quantum ...

A new video released by Nasa captures a defining moment of the Artemis II mission, the ignition of the Orion spacecraft’s main engine. The footage posted on social media by the space agency shows the ...

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that manipulates tiny vibrations at the quantum level. By dramatically reducing noise in ...

'Rise' is a baseball hat-wearing plushie that will let the four-person crew know when they have officially hit zero gravity. By Andrew Paul Published Mar 30, 2026 11:20 AM EDT Add Popular Science ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this ...

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What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...