gravity

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And yet, the crew was in the moon’s gravitational arena, where its gravity dominates Earth’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

There have been countless other important space-related milestones since Apollo 17, our last moon visit, but what’s more dramatic than bouncing around in one-sixth of Earth’s gravity and smacking golf balls between lunar craters?

From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026

Just as the market is prone to overreact, though, it can be surprisingly slow to grasp the gravity of a really major crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

This flexibility makes it useful not just for studying quantum gravity, but also for investigating stochastic gravitational waves, possible dark matter signals, and certain types of experimental noise.

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

The force of gravity is so great that the star’s electrons give up their struggle once and for all; the electrons smash into the star's protons, creating neutrons.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife