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  1. What Is Gravity? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · The answer is gravity: an invisible force that pulls objects toward each other. Earth's gravity is what keeps you on the ground and what makes things fall. An animation of gravity at work. …

  2. What Is a Gravitational Wave? - NASA Space Place

    Sep 25, 2025 · Before this, just about everything we knew about the universe came from studying waves of light. Now we have a new way to learn about the universe—by studying waves of gravity. …

  3. What Is Gravity? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.

  4. Gravity | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · What Is Gravity? Gravity is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. explore What Is a Black Hole? Space Place in a Snap tackles this fascinating …

  5. What Is a Black Hole? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Aug 29, 2022 · What Is a Black Hole? The Short Answer: A black hole is an area of such immense gravity that nothing -- not even light -- can escape from it.

  6. All About the Moon | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · We know that the Moon has almost no atmosphere and only about one-sixth of Earth’s gravity. We even know that there is quite a bit of frozen water tucked away in craters near the Moon's …

  7. How Do We Weigh Planets? - NASA Space Place

    Sep 25, 2025 · When you stand on a scale, what it’s actually doing is measuring how hard Earth’s gravity is pulling on you. If you were to step onto a scale on another planet, it would say something …

  8. What Is Dark Matter? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · When light from distant stars passes through a galaxy or cluster, the gravity of the matter present in the galaxy or cluster causes the light to bend. As a result, the light looks like it is coming …

  9. What Is a Nebula? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · The dust and gases in a nebula are very spread out, but gravity can slowly begin to pull together clumps of dust and gas. As these clumps get bigger and bigger, their gravity gets stronger …

  10. What Is an Orbit? | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

    Sep 25, 2025 · This statement is called Newton's first law of motion. Without gravity, an Earth-orbiting satellite would go off into space along a straight line. With gravity, it is pulled back toward Earth. A …