Your weight doesn't change because of gravity but because the floor pushes back. Physicists explain why elevators briefly ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree ...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred million light-years away. HD 137010 b is one of ...

A new study with ties to the Boston Celtics uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court.

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court. Scientists slid a shoe against a smooth ...

Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half ...