A viral claim says Earth will lose gravity for 7 seconds in 2026. Here's what NASA says and what would happen if it were true.
For centuries, Earth has been pictured as a near-perfect blue sphere floating through space — but a new high-precision gravity model is revealing a far stranger reality. Using detailed measurements ...
We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...
Have you heard the rumor online that the Earth’s gravity will be turned off for 7 seconds this August 12th? If you have, don’t panic. This is not going to happen. The original conspiracy theory that ...
On Dec. 12, at 11:15 p.m. EST, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently in a two-year orbit around the sun, will skim Earth's atmosphere, passing only about 220 miles (360 kilometers) above the surface. This ...
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 ...
NASA's GRACE satellites mapped subtle variations in Earth's gravity field. These gravity anomalies originate from dense and ...
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 ...
The motion of the booster, named 2020 SO, is primarily driven by the gravity of the Sun and Earth. Prior to 2019, the booster was orbiting the Sun with an orbit similar to Earth’s, but moving at a ...
Earth and the Moon are forever locked in a gravitational embrace that has played a critical role in determining the fate of both worlds. Although they have grown more distant since their formative ...