Explore how Newton’s discoveries in physics, mathematics, and optics reshaped science and continue to influence our understanding of the universe.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It's a tale as old as time itself: Isaac Newton sat under a tree, got hit in the head with an apple and came up with the theories of gravity and motion. So, the story itself may ...

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

The latest news and top stories on Sir Isaac Newton, a highly influential English polymath. Known for his groundbreaking work in physics and mathematics, he formulated the laws of motion and universal ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 1687, English physicist Isaac Newton published his famous Law of Universal Gravitation. The idea that all objects attract in proportion to their ...

The seeds for the idea were planted when a student picked up an apple. The fruit had fallen from a special tree – a clone of the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity, ...

What could be more familiar than gravity? Drop something and gravity pulls it to the floor, right? And in school we learn that gravity is what guides the moon in orbit around Earth, and Earth in its ...