Social feeds are filling with breathless claims that on 8/12/26, Earth will briefly “turn off” gravity for seven seconds, thanks to a secret NASA experiment tied to a solar eclipse. The story is ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

In recent weeks, a rumor claiming that Earth would “lose gravity ” for 7 seconds on August 12, 2026, has whipped up an online ...

This artist’s concept shows an example of a gravitational assist maneuver, used by spacecraft to travel through the solar system. In this example, the spacecraft flies close by Mars, then by Jupiter, ...

Scientists on Earth use seismometers to get a more detailed picture of what the inside of the Earth is made of. Those seismometers record vibrations from earthquakes. The vibrations change depending ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be found on the outskirts of our galaxy's dense central ...