Researchers at IPhT (CEA, CNRS) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have shown that gravity—and with it, ...

A plush mascot created by a second grader has been chosen as the zero-gravity indicator for NASA’s Artemis II flight, helping astronauts know when they’ve reached weightlessness.

When Artemis II launched Wednesday, it was carrying "Rise," a stuffed toy designed by an 8-year-old from California that will ...

A second-grade student from California has designed the mascot that will join NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon -- known as the zero gravity indicator.

Researchers put human sperm into a microgravity simulation chamber designed to mimic the female reproductive tract and tested ...

Space isn’t a forgiving place to be stuck. There’s no air, no pulling over for directions and no margin for error. When something goes wrong, you’re left with ...

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A dip in Earth's gravity field beneath Antarctica is helping scientists track deep-Earth changes over tens of millions of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now. Reading time 3 minutes Arrokoth is a reddish, snowman-shaped asteroid in ...

The idea of waging war in orbit is no longer a figment of science fiction. As satellite technologies and launch capabilities have rapidly advanced, military powers increasingly see space as the ...

With $20 M funding so far, Quantum Gravity Gradiometer Pathfinder Mission is intended to “advance U.S. space sensing”. Variable: a NASA map of Earth’s gravity. Click for info. Infleqtion, a developer ...