Like most real-world problems, physics can get very complicated. When a physicist considers the fate of this falling cockroach, their first step is to change the problem into something simpler. It's ...

If you drop an object, it will fall. It's a motion that we’ve all seen hundreds of times. We’ve also all seen plenty of the moon, which makes one complete orbit around our planet every 27.3 days (as ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains how gravity truly acts on falling objects, revealing the physics behind motion, acceleration, and why our everyday experience often hides the universe’s deeper rules.