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.

Although Newton, who died in 1727, is best known for his discovery of gravity, the physicist also had a lifelong obsession with alchemy. The pursuit's practitioners sought to turn base metals into ...

The renowned scientist, who discovered gravity and invented calculus, wrote about a second coming of Christ in just over four decades time - marking an end to life as we know it in 2060.

A new physics paper takes a step toward creating a long-sought "theory of everything" by uniting gravity with the quantum ...

Ramesh Pokhriyal, the Minister for Human Resource Development, claims that Indian mathematicians discovered gravity ‘centuries before Newton.’ Speaking at an event last week, Mr Pokhriyal ...

In a sharp break from Newtonian physics, Einstein’s general theory of relativity had suggested that gravity generated previously undetected ripples that moved through space-time in a manner much ...

But the story behind just who discovered the expanding Universe is ... Einstein's theory of gravity reduced to Newton's laws when distances were large and masses were small, and provided unique ...

The English scientist, mathematician and philosopher Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity. Newton saw an apple fall from a tree and began to think that there must be a force that exists ...