Learn how to calculate the force required to reach and surpass the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit! In this physics tutorial, we break down the principles of orbital mechanics, ...

The new supercomputer “Minerva” has been put into operation at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI). With 9,504 compute cores, 38 terabyte memory and a ...

Ever since Newton published his universal law of gravitation in 1687, anyone with a slide rule and a half decent education could calculate the force of gravity on a falling body or a planet in orbit.

Weight is the force acting on an object due to gravity - it has the unit newtons (N) and acts towards the centre of a gravitational field. So weight is a gravitational force on an object that has mass ...

There are quite a few fundamental constants. These are things like the speed of light (c) the charge on an electron (e), and the Planck constant (h). These constants are determined with some type of ...

The supertankers TI Europe and TI Oceania are two of the largest free-moving objects made by man, how does gravitation affect them? Each ship has a total mass of \(5\times {10^8}kg\) and they could ...

Scientists have calculated the ancient signals that emerged just after the Big Bang. These signals come from a long-lost cosmological phenomena known as ‘oscillons,’ the gravitational wave sources ...