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 ...

The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and ...

Gravity has been tested extremely well inside the solar system. On cosmic scales, direct tests are harder. This study pushes ...

Gravity’s always been my favorite force. I’ve been cheering from the front lines as it’s consistently exceeded expectations, mapping massive globs of invisible matter, bending light to magnify infant ...

In quantum physics, objects can exist in multiple states at the same time—a phenomenon known as quantum superposition, where ...

Waterloo scientists have developed a new way to understand how the universe began, and it could change what we know about the Big Bang and the earliest moments of cosmic history. Their work suggests ...

The International Space Station is humanity’s most expensive gym membership. Since the earliest days of human spaceflight, it’s been understood that longer trips away from Earth’s gravity can have a ...