A viral conspiracy theory suggesting that the Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds in August this year has left people ...

Mind = blown.

For weeks, social feeds have been flooded with breathless warnings that Earth will briefly “turn off” gravity for seven ...

A viral rumour predicts Earth losing gravity in 2026, but scientists say only a routine eclipse awaits. How did the claim spread, and why are experts pushing back now?

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

Gravity has become an unlikely viral villain, blamed for an imagined global blackout in which the planet briefly lets go of ...

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim ...

There are some things in life that just sort of happen. Desks get covered in dust and scraps of paper. Clothes get dirty and the laundry basket fills up. Weeds slowly creep across an untended ...

Isaac Newton was never entirely happy with his law of universal gravitation. For decades after publishing it in 1687, he sought to understand how, exactly, two objects were able to pull on each other ...

The Juno spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter has a suite of science instruments which will investigate the existence of a possible solid planetary core, map Jupiter’s intense magnetic field, measure the ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden quantum geometry inside materials that subtly steers electrons, echoing how gravity ...