When most people think of life aboard the ISS they think of a gravity free environment, only the ISS experiences most of the ...

For the next two months, an unusual object about the size of a bus will be orbiting above our heads. Say hello to Earth’s temporary new mini-moon. From Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, a passing asteroid ...

The skydiver will start falling toward the Earth but won’t feel it. If you’re in free fall, you don’t feel the gravity because everything around you is falling with you. It’s an unusual ...

The researchers discovered that the lunar nearside flexes slightly more than the farside during its elliptical orbit around ...

since it won’t be making a full revolution around the Earth before the sun’s gravity pulls it back onto its normal path. This is not the first time such a phenomenon has happened. In 2020 ...

Nimmo notes that around this time period, Earth was still molten — not a smooth sphere, but lumpy. Not only did the Moon’s gravity induce bulges, Earth also had a higher rotation rate ...

Using the gravity of planets like Earth and Venus can make just the right ... by Venus for an energy boost next year before looping around our planet twice for more boosts in 2026 and 2029 ...