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A Rare Glimpse into the Birth of New Worlds: Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Discover Newly Forming Protoplanet

Christopher Plain·March 26, 2026

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have discovered a distant protoplanet still in the formation process

Antarctica’s Mysterious Gravity Hole is Finally Explained, Revealing Why the Icy Continent Experiences Earth’s Weakest Gravity

Ryan Whalen·February 20, 2026

The origins of Antarctica’s gravity hole have finally been revealed, after researchers probed beneath the ice to trace it's formation.

Unraveling Gravitropism: Scientists Decode the Unusual Relationship Between Gravity and Plant Roots

Christopher Plain·September 23, 2025

An international team of scientists has unraveled the mysterious relationship between gravity, and the growth trajectories of plant roots.

Gravity vs Quantum Physics: Researchers Say They are Closing in on “One of the Most Important Outstanding Problems”

Ryan Whalen·August 15, 2025

Researchers have revealed the upcoming studies they hope will finally reconcile quantum physics with gravity.

Martian Gravity Surprise Offers NASA Clues to Why Its Robotic Rovers Are Getting Stuck

Christopher Plain·July 28, 2025

Scientists show a misunderstanding of gravity explains why successful Earth-based simulations that free trapped rovers fail on other planets

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Theory Proposing Three-Dimensional Time as the “Primary Fabric of Everything” Could Unify Quantum Physics and Gravity

Christopher Plain·June 23, 2025

A new, testable theory proposing three-dimensional time as the "primary fabric of everything" could help unify quantum physics and gravity.

Einstein’s Unified Field Theory Realized? New Theory Unites Electromagnetism and Gravity Through Geometry

Micah Hanks·April 16, 2025

Researchers say they may have achieved Einstein's vision of a "unified field theory" that can unite two of nature's fundamental forces.

Stellar Snapshot! Astrophysicist Captures First-Ever Close-Up Image of a Star in Another Galaxy

Christopher Plain·November 25, 2024

An astrophysicist and his team have made history by capturing the first-ever close-up image of a star in another galaxy.

Discovery Challenges Einstein’s General Relativity as Mysterious Acceleration of Universe’s Expansion Suggests Unknown Physics

Micah Hanks·November 18, 2024

An international research team's new calculations of the distortion of time and space presents new challenges to predictions in Einstein's general relativity.

James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity

Christopher Plain and Ryan Whalen·November 15, 2024

New discoveries from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope offer unexpected support for an alternate theory of gravity first proposed in 1998.

Scientists Studying “Trickster” Asteroid Make a Surprise Discovery Pointing to Elusive Fifth Force in Physics

Ryan Whalen·October 21, 2024

Scientists may have isolated a long sought ‘fifth force’ in physics with the help of data collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission from the mysterious "trickster" asteroid Bennu.

NASA Has Confirmed the Existence of a Phenomenon in Our Atmosphere That Has Puzzled Scientists for Half a Century

Micah Hanks·September 2, 2024

For the first time, a team of rocket scientists at NASA says they have finally succeeded in detecting a mysterious phenomenon in Earth’s atmosphere.

New Gravitational Insights Unveil Mysterious Relationship Between Satellites and Earth’s Core Cycles

Avi Loeb·July 6, 2024

A study suggests that the Earth's core follows a 70-year cycle, which alludes to the "dance" between satellites and the Earth's core.

Clash Between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Could Be Resolved by New Mathematical Framework

Micah Hanks·June 11, 2024

New research is offering fresh insights into the long-held divide between general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Gravity Without Mass? New Study Challenges the Existence of Hypothetical Dark Matter

Micah Hanks·June 7, 2024

A recent study that presents new challenges to the existence of dark matter suggests gravity may be able to exist even in the absence of mass.

NASA Veteran’s Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn’t Work Just Produced Enough Thrust to Overcome Earth’s Gravity

Christopher Plain·April 19, 2024

A veteran NASA scientist says his company has tested a propellantless propulsion drive technology that produced one Earth gravity of thrust.

Evidence of Quantum Gravity Remains Elusive in South Pole Experiments. An Odd Particle Could Hold the Answer.

Christopher Plain·April 2, 2024

Quantum Gravity experiments at the South Pole failed to discover elusive effects on the quantum coherence of neutrinos.

Controversial Dark Matter Discovery Could Upend Our Current Understanding of the Universe

Micah Hanks·March 19, 2024

A controversial new paper argues that there may not be enough room in the universe for dark matter, after all.

Breakthrough in Quantum Measurement of Gravity Achieved Using Levitating Magnets

Micah Hanks·February 26, 2024

Physicists are one step closer to the measurement of gravity at the quantum level, findings that may broaden our understanding of some of the most mysterious forces at work in our universe.

Detecting the Undetectable: Could Future Technology Help Us Locate “Stealth Vehicles” Piloted by Aliens?

Avi Loeb·December 28, 2023

With future advances in gravitational-wave detectors, it might be possible to detect gravitationally stealth vehicles developed by aliens.

Physicists Hope to Finally Resolve Whether Gravity is Quantum by Levitating Micro Diamonds

Christopher Plain·December 12, 2023

New experiments to determine whether or not gravity is quantum in nature will involve levitating micro diamonds in a vacuum.

Rogue Star Encounter Could Spell Certain Doom for Earth and the Solar System, Scientists Warn

Micah Hanks·November 28, 2023

The future of planet Earth could be threatened if it were ever to have a close encounter with a rogue star, according to new research.

The Invisible Sky Within Neutrinos

Avi Loeb·November 15, 2023

Neutrinos are electrically neutral particles that interact only through the weak interaction and gravity. If our eyes were sensitive to neutrinos, what would we see?

Pseudogravity That Bends Light Just Like Real Gravity Created by Engineers in a Laboratory

Christopher Plain·October 17, 2023

A team of researchers working with photonic crystals say they have created pseudogravity in the lab that bends light like real gravity.

Einstein Was Right: Antimatter Reacts to Gravity Before Catastrophic Self-Annihilation

Christopher Plain·September 28, 2023

Researchers at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland have shown that gravity directly affects antimatter, once again proving Einstein to have been correct in his predictions.

Mysterious Dark Matter Could Interact with Gravity Non-Locally, New Research Suggests

Micah Hanks·September 1, 2023

Dark matter, the mysterious nonluminous material thought to populate close to 85% of the universe’s matter, may interact with gravity in a non-local way, according to newly published research.

Unraveling the Cosmic Symphony: The Top 5 Ways the Gravitational Wave Background Discovery Revolutionizes Our Understanding of the Universe

The GWB discovery is a big deal, so here's a quick list explaining why...

MJ Banias·June 29, 2023

Here are five ways detection of the gravitational wave background (GWB) by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) revolutionizes our understanding of the universe.

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The GWB discovery is a big deal, so here's a quick list explaining why...

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