Crew members aboard the International Space Station unpack newly delivered fresh fruit and other goodies in October 2019. (NASA) When astronauts come back down to Earth, it can take a moment to adjust ...

An astronaut can hold a tool in space, loosen their fingers, and watch it stay put. Nothing drops. Nothing tugs downward. Yet ...

Missions going in orbit around the Earth experience microgravity due to freefall. The apparent absence of gravity affects ...

Why do astronauts squeeze objects too hard? A new study explains how the brain's internal gravity model persists in space, ...

Subatomic particles, gravity wells and the beginning of the universe – these are difficult and mysterious concepts that are better understood with storytelling and metaphor. That’s exactly theoretical ...

Texas A&M University is preparing for a new era of space research with the launch of a research centrifuge at the Anthony ...

A study of 300,000 galaxies confirms that gravity follows Newton's law and deepens the mystery of dark matter.

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the elusive graviton—the quantum particle of gravity—whose discovery will finally ...