What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

We all know gravity as the invisible force that keeps us grounded. But what if it's not a force at all? What if it's a function? One physicist believes gravity might actually be one of the strongest ...

As Earthlings, most of us don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about the gravity on our home planet. Instead, we go about our days only occasionally dropping things or tripping over furniture but ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova?These questions circle ...

Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, fluid motion and observed data, hundreds of these models agree that more carbon ...

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 ...

HOUSTON—Blue Origin’s 29th New Shepard suborbital launch on Feb. 4 successfully provided 30 technology payloads with brief exposure to simulated lunar gravity conditions, a first for the company’s ...

Gravitons, the particle of quantum gravity, may be impossible to detect. To progress to the next level in understanding reality, we need to combine quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity.