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While most scientists believe it’s a natural comet, one Harvard astronomer has suggested its unusual features could hint at ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other object—a result that explained falling ...

An interactive map has recently highlighted the alarming increase in out-of-control rockets and spacecraft crashing back to ...

We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? "Drop" in to find out! We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? Drop in to learn about the gravitational forces like acceleration and air ...

Astronomer Avi Loeb outlines nine "anomalies" that he says support his hypothesis that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an ...

Stuff falls all the time. Maybe you’ve dropped a ball. Perhaps that cup of coffee slipped out of your hands. The mostly likely situation is that a cat decided to knock an object off a table—because ...

Seismometers over Los Angeles awakened on April 2, 2024, with unusual blips. An earthquake would have been a reasonable cause for the activity, but the signals didn’t appear along fault lines. The ...

We all know the importance of protecting an employee working at heights; we routinely use PPE such as full body harnesses, self-retracting lifelines (SRLs) and lanyards for fall protection to prevent ...