If you drop an object, it will fall. It's a motion that we’ve all seen hundreds of times. We’ve also all seen plenty of the moon, which makes one complete orbit around our planet every 27.3 days (as ...

We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? "Drop" in to find out! We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? Drop in to learn about the gravitational forces like acceleration and air ...

Out in the depths of the universe, outlandish black-hole-like entities might exist with the power to redefine physics as we know it. A new study calculates that, in the coming years, gravitational ...

How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to ...

A recent astronomical discovery has left scientists puzzled as they track an object accelerating in a manner that defies the current understanding of physics. This enigmatic object, potentially ...

Last week’s Alaska Airlines incident—when a sheet-metal door plug fell off a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane at around 16,000 feet—was a scary reminder that small errors can have massive consequences. But the ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how gravity truly acts on falling objects, revealing the physics behind motion, acceleration, and why our everyday experience often hides the universe’s deeper rules.

If there's one thing that you should learn from physics, it's that big things are not like small things. I don't just mean that big things are bigger, or even that big things are more massive. (That's ...