Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that ...

Astronomers detect a laser-like signal coming from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away. A cosmic mystery.

Quote of the day by Newton: 1915 changed physics forever. In that year, Albert Einstein published the general theory of relativity and reshaped our understanding of gravity and spacetime. For 228 ...

There is an area of reduced gravity under Antarctica — the so-called gravity hole. A new study has shown that it arose due to the slow movements of rocks in the depths of the Earth, which occurred ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Many coastal maps start from the wrong sea-level baseline, and correcting the error could mean millions more are vulnerable ...

When English author J.R.R. Tolkien crafted his fantasy world Middle-earth, he argued storytellers are essentially “sub-creators” – they build fictional realms with internally consistent laws. For a ...

Polyhedrons come in all shapes and sizes. Anything that has multiple faces joined at their edges can be a polyhedron. Picture Earth as a six-sided cube. Or as a triangular pyramid with four faces ...

In this spirit of rigorous worldbuilding, we just published a new study where we merged the disparate disciplines of literary worldbuilding and climate modelling. We used complex computer programs – ...

A team of geophysicists has traced the origins of Earth’s most extreme gravitational anomaly, a vast depression beneath ...

A team of scientist from the University of Idaho have proposed using neutrinos, or "ghost particles," to provide the clearest image of the Earth's core to date.

Astronomers have successfully mapped the cold gas at the Milky Way's center, offering unprecedented insight into our solar system's origins.