Zero gravity relies on you, your surroundings, and the air all falling at the same rate, and airplanes flying parabolic arcs can provide the conditions.

Renowned experimental physicist, Nobel laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss, ...

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The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed ...

An astronaut who managed to prank others on board the ISS by wearing a gorilla suit in hilarious footage explained why he did it.

For decades, researchers testing rovers have accounted for that difference in gravity by creating a prototype that is a sixth ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction ...

It suggests your subjective experience might come from both your physical brain and the mysterious quantum activity within it ...

Two of Pluto's midsize moons may be made of the guts of its largest moon, Charon, new research suggests.

A research team proposes utilizing numerical relativity, a computational technique for solving Einstein's equations in high-gravity environments, to investigate the universe's origin. The approach ...

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a study ...

The renowned experimental physicist and Nobel laureate whose brainchild resulted in the LIGO observatory at Hanford in ...