Gravity used to be the most dependable rule in the cosmic rulebook, the quiet background force that never changed its mind.

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Cooling metal bars to near absolute zero, suspending microscopic gold beads, or searching for signs that gravity might be quantum: meet the scientists hunting for gravity's elusive nature ...

For decades, astronomers have treated dark matter as the invisible scaffolding of the cosmos, a mysterious substance that ...

Viral claims suggesting that Earth will temporarily lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12, 2026 have been dismissed by NASA as baseless and misleading. The rumour, widely circulated on social ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe could be explained by modifying general relativity so that gravity has mass – or so thinks a small group of physicists. Matthew Francis reports What lies ...