Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

We tend to think of gravity as being about as constant as it gets. It is the invisible anchor that keeps our feet on the ...

Researchers uncover how slow changes deep inside Earth created Antarctica’s gravity anomaly and may even connect to ancient ...

A vast “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica became stronger as the continent shifted into an ice-dominated world tens of ...

The simulations showed that the gravity hole was initially much less pronounced. Between roughly 50 million and 30 million years ago, however, it intensified significantly. This period coincides with ...

[ADDENDUM 11/26/12: It has been pointed out to me that two planets that have the same surface gravity won't necessarily have the same escape velocity, which appears to undermine my argument that it ...