Black holes are one of the most fascinating and mysterious phenomena in the universe. These cosmic giants have such immense ...

Differences in the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon will make July 9, July 22 and August 5 unusually short.

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uncovered a critical flaw in how lunar and Martian rovers are tested on ...

July 22 will be the second-shortest day of the year, as Earth completes a full rotation in less time than usual.

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as ...

Using computer simulations, University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineers have uncovered a flaw in how rovers are ...

The weak gravitational pull on a particle just half the mass of a grain of sand has been measured for the first time. This most precise measurement of its kind is a breakthrough towards the ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

The pull of a third galaxy could yank the Milky Way out of the path of Andromeda. ... But roughly 100 smaller galaxies in the Local Group also exert their own gravitational pull.