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NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon’s gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of ...
Ten events that would unfold if gravity suddenly vanished, beginning with the effects on our bodies and ending with the ...
GRASS will launch about the Hera mission in October 2024, if all goes according to plan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...
The presence of a partially-molten layer between the Moon's rocky mantle and solid metal core is looking more likely following a study on its changing shape and gravity. Researchers from the NASA ...
New research published this week confirms Stephen Hawking’s 1971 theory that the surface area of black holes never shrinks, even during a collision. An international group of scientists, ...
Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck because the surface of the moon is “fluffier” than on Earth, suggests a new study. Researchers reckon they’ve finally worked out why the multi-million dollar ...
If a hypothetical Mars crew operated this machine for 14 months those astronauts would create enough oxygen to let them break free of the Martian surface gravity. When you purchase through links on ...
The idea that extraterrestrial life could exist in our Solar System got one of its earliest boosts almost half a century ago when NASA spacecraft first photographed the more intricate details of ...
Your weight changes on other planets and moons due to different gravitational pulls. Weight is how much gravity pulls on you; mass (amount of matter) stays the same. Newton's Law of Gravitation ...
Every now and again I’ll get a weird thought in my head that sits there demanding an answer. Sometimes it’s trivial, and sometimes it sounds silly but then leads to some fun insights. This time my ...