Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

European scientists are turning an aircraft into a laboratory that simulates lunar gravity to prepare astronauts and ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

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Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

Astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Schirra delighted mission control with their rendition of the Christmas classic ...

The two stars in the nearby system ZTF J2130 are spiraling toward a catastrophic supernova. In the meantime, scientists are using the pair's slow orbital decay to put Einstein's theory of gravity to ...

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Simply put, gravity makes the whole universe move in ways that may seem crazy at first, but once it is better understood, it is very orderly. Once you understand these factors wel ...