This larger gravitational force between two bodies relies on something called the gravitational constant that is used to calculate the relative gravitational force between two objects.

Perhaps the most difficult constant to measure is the gravitational constant (G). This gravitational constant is used to give the value of the force between two objects with mass.

Measuring devices have become sensitive enough to detect the gravitational forces between tiny objects and may soon cross the quantum threshold.

Newton's law of universal gravitation says that the gravitational force between two objects gets stronger as objects get more massive, and weaker the further apart those objects get.

A fundamental constant that sets the size of the gravitational force between all objects has finally been pinned down with quantum physics.

But on an orbital sense, the gravitational force between two objects depends on the mass of both the larger and the smaller object.

This allowed the researchers to find the strength of the gravitational force between the two spheres, and also find their own measurement for the gravitational constant.

The asteroid belt is the ring-shaped disc consisting of irregular small bodies called asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter. I have studied the origins of the asteroid belt in the the solar ...

Variations of this law pop up everywhere in physics; for gravity, it would dictate that the gravitational force between two objects is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between ...

In my astronomy studies decades ago, we used the “Roche limit” to determine when a smaller body is too close to survive a larger object’s gravitational force. Do astronomers still use that term?