Descendant planted for 2010 Arbor Day By SKIP VAUGHN Rocket editor skip.vaughn@htimes.com Redstone Arsenal added to its long history Thursday – this time with a connection to the 17th century. For ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A piece of the apple tree that helped British scientist Sir Isaac Newton explain the tug of Earth ...

Sir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ago ...

Archaeologists have discovered Isaac Newton’s childhood home near the location of iconic apple tree that resulted in the birth of the Theory of Gravity in the 17th century. The remnants of the 17th ...

Giles Wood (centre) said it had been "a moving moment" to collect the sapling with his two sons Rollo (left) and Robert A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton who bought a sapling from the apple tree said ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. | Sir Isaac Newton’s famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Friday will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple ...

STANFORD — What’s this tree hiding? A sapling on the Stanford campus is heir to scientific aristocracy, the descendant of the tree that legend says inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s Theory of Universal ...

This week’s puzzle is not about gravity, though you’d be excused for suspecting as much. After all, when most people read “Isaac Newton” and “tree” in the same sentence, they think also of falling ...

Sir Isaac Newton famously formulated his theory of gravity while watching an apple fall from a tree. Now a bit of that tree is going into zero gravity. The space shuttle launching Friday will carry a ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station have given azero gravity tribute to famed 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton in honorof his pioneering work to understand the laws of gravity ? which ...

A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton who bought a sapling from the apple tree said to have inspired the theory of gravity has said he plans to plant it in the family's cider orchard. Giles Wood, from ...