As Earthlings, most of us don’t spend a lot of extra time thinking about the gravity on our home planet. Instead, we go about our days only occasionally dropping things or tripping over furniture but ...

Evidence pointing toward the existence of an undiscovered ninth planet in the solar system may actually indicate our ideas of gravity are incorrect. Such is the conclusion of two scientists who ...

Using the beloved soft-body physics simulator BeamNG.drive, Orgill drives a pickup truck and a small container truck around in different levels of gravity. Even shifting from one gravity to another ...

Rocky worlds larger than Earth are commonplace in the galaxy, and a few of them may even be habitable. Which poses an interesting question: How difficult would it be for aliens living on these ...

Artist's illustration of the super-Earth alien planet Kepler-69c. "Super-Earth" planets are giant-size versions of Earth, and some research has suggested that they're more likely to be habitable than ...

Super-Earths have been seen as planets that have the potential to host alien life. These types of planets are more common than Earth. There is just one problem with Super-Earths: gravity. Stronger ...