Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest and largest volcano in our solar system, stands at 16 miles high and 374 miles wide. Found ...

If a person with a mass of 55kgs was to travel to Jupiter or Pluto, the effects of gravity would be very different from those on Earth. Gravity is the pull that a planet exerts towards its centre.

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Long-anticipated findings confirm eclipses create a ripple effect in Earth's atmosphere. College students' measurements during a "ring of fire" solar eclipse last year have confirmed a long-held ...

Although we can still see comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in our sky, astronomers are already preparing for another ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. College students' measurements during a "ring of fire" solar eclipse last year have confirmed ...

Earth has a new “mini-moon” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after us for years. Now, it has become close enough to be pulled in by our gravity.

“It undoes gravity. ... Without it, Earth would be very different.” The newly discovered electric field is as fundamental to Earth as gravity, the authors said, but it wasn’t easy to detec ...

In the first place, it has the highest carbon content of any meteorite ... of several major disasters struck the young planet. Earth's gravity was pulling in huge quantities of debris from space ...

Now, it has become close enough to be pulled in by our gravity. It will stay with us until November, when it will stop being bound to Earth and we will leave it behind. Then it will stay on its ...

However, without buckets of water on its surface like Earth has, tidal effects on the moon are far more subtle. The moon does, however, experience changes in its shape and gravity. How the moon ...

Tributes have flowed for a Qantaslink pilot whose “sudden and unexpected” death has rocked the airline, as his family ...