After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

More than 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet may have collided with the young Earth in a cataclysmic impact. The ...

Researchers uncover how slow changes deep inside Earth created Antarctica’s gravity anomaly and may even connect to ancient ...

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 ...

Spiral galaxies don’t rotate like solid disks — if they did, their arms would wind themselves into tight spirals and disappear. Instead, stars pass through vast density waves while mysterious dark ...

The simulations showed that the gravity hole was initially much less pronounced. Between roughly 50 million and 30 million years ago, however, it intensified significantly. This period coincides with ...

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

Team USA boasts a comically formidable collection of talent, but how will the lineup, defensive alignment and starting rotation play out?

The battle to crown the world's greatest baseball team begins in just two weeks. Twenty teams from around the world will ...

Amateur astronomers, take note: A wonderful celestial event known as a total lunar eclipse will occur in the skies above North America during the morning hours of Monday, March 3. Lunar eclipses ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

And the materials sector, which is heavy in metals and mining stocks, has climbed higher in 2026 on a rebound in commodities ...