Legend has it that Isaac Newton had the moment of inspiration that would lead to his theory of gravity when, on a warm ...

If gravity arises from entropy, scientists could unite Einstein's general relativity with the quantum realm while shedding ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.

At the age of 23, young Isaac Newton realizes that gravitational force accounts for falling bodies on earth as well as the motion of the moon and the planets in orbit. This is a revolutionary step ...

In a new Physical Review Letters study, researchers propose an experimental approach that could finally determine whether ...

Sir Isaac Newton wrote his theory of gravity in a home-made ink created with beer as a key ingredient, a study suggests. The physicist published his theory of calculus, his three eponymous laws of ...

For all the miracles of his miracle year, his best work is still to come: In 1907, he confronts the problem of gravitation, the same problem that Newton confronted and solved (almost). Einstein ...

You've probably been told about it at school, but did you know that it played a vital role in Sir Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity? TIM PEAKE:To find out how, and how Halley also changed our ...