The International Space Station is always falling, yet it never crashes to Earth or burns up in our atmosphere. How is this ...

Scientists have observed X-rays emanating from a white dwarf orbiting a supermassive black hole in a galaxy near the Milky Way. The study notes the stability of the dwarf's orbit, despite its ...

DR MAGGIE ADERIN-POCOCK:You're in orbit. 'Well that's the theory. 'But it took 250 years after Newton's death 'before anyone built a machine powerful enough 'to put it into practice. DR MAGGIE ...

Gravity is the force needed to maintain the orbit of planets, asteroids and comets around a star and moons and artificial satellites around a planet. An artificial satellite is a man-made body ...