In the current age of social media fervour, information and sometimes also misinformation spreads like wildfire. Since times immemorial, ancient prophecies or modern viral hoaxes have spun tales of ...

A "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica is offering scientists a rare glimpse into Earth's deep interior, a dynamic record of slow-moving processes that have been reshaping our planet for tens of millions ...

Most of us take gravity for granted. You jump, you fall down to earth. It’s pretty simple, right? Well, in some places on Earth, gravity doesn’t behave the way we might think. Here are 25 places on ...

The conspiracy theories go as far as predicting millions of deaths and a decade-long economic collapse. Viral claims circulating on the internet warning that Earth's gravity will briefly disappear on ...

This article predates Brown Brothers Media’s ownership of Science Blog and has not been reviewed under our current editorial process. It is preserved as part of the publication’s archive. (A) These ...

After just two years in orbit, ESA’s GOCE satellite has gathered enough data to map Earth’s gravity with unrivalled precision. Scientists now have access to the most accurate model of the ‘geoid’ ever ...

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 ...

Flat Earth theory, the erroneous idea that the Earth is flat, continues to persist online despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Some proponents of this model believe that the Earth cannot be ...

The Earth is a dynamic system—it has a fluid, mobile atmosphere and oceans, a continually changing distribution of ice, snow, and groundwater, a fluid core undergoing hydromagnetic motion, a mantle ...

Inspired by Andy Weir's book and film "Project Hail Mary," schools worldwide took part in the Space for Teachers Project Hail Mary Challenge, giving students a chance to design a rotating spacecraft ...

ESA’s Juice spacecraft has flown past Earth, using the planet’s gravity to reshape its trajectory as it continues its eight-year journey to Jupiter.