As they whirl around in low-Earth orbit, satellite configurations are far more sensitive to changes in Earth's gravity field ...

A new celestial object, a quasi-moon, has been discovered in Earth’s orbit. This cosmic companion has been circling our planet unnoticed for decades, possibly up to 60 years, and is now redefining our ...

A collision between black holes that sent one spiraling away at million 3 mph. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have ...

Researchers have succeeded in measuring the gravitational field of a gold sphere, just 2 mm in diameter, using a highly sensitive pendulum - and thus the smallest gravitational force. The experiment ...

General relativity has never been tested in places where the effects of gravity become truly extreme—for example, at the edge of a black hole. That will soon change Scientists have been trying ...

June 17 (UPI) --A chaotic, young star system, located 400 light-years from Earth, has offered astronomers new insights into the planet formation process. Observations of the stellar system Elias 2-27 ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 108, No. 8 (February 22, 2011), pp. 3135-3140 (6 pages) The origin of highly magnetized white dwarfs has remained ...