why there is no gravity in outer space .....?

Answer 1

Because gravity only occurs on a celestial body.......

Answer 2

There is indeed gravity in outer space. Any two masses will tend to grab onto each other, in outer space or anywhere else. However, if it's only you and a spacecraft, the _amount_of gravitational pull will be exceedingly small and difficult to detect. But that's very different from there being _no_ gravity.

Answer 3

As others have said, there is gravity everywhere, it's just extremely weak in the wide open spaces. Gravity decreases with the square of distance. So if you move twice as far away, gravity is 4 times weaker. That adds up very quickly.

Answer 4

Why is there no gravity in space?

Answer:

Oh, but there is gravity in space! Astronauts only FEEL like there is no gravity because they are continuously falling as if there weren't. You see, if there were no gravity in space, the astronauts in their space ships would fly off into space and not be able to come back! Imagine you have a piece of string with a ball on the end. In this example, YOU are the EARTH, the STRING is GRAVITY, and the BALL is a SPACE SHIP. Now start swinging the ball around in a circle. You see that the ball is pulling on you as you are pulling on the ball. If you were to cut the string (that is, if there were no gravity), then the ball would fly off into space. The difficult thing to realize is this: if you are constantly pulling on the string -- which you are as you swing it around -- why doesn't the ball come to you as it swings? It is because the ball is already in motion around you. This is like the space ship: it is in motion around the earth, and is continously "falling" towards the earth (as the earth's gravity pulls on it), but since it is already moving around the earth it never is pulled into the earth because it always misses.

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Answer 5

There's plenty of gravity all around... some places the gravitational pull is small, but for example, in Earth orbit, there's plenty of gravity. Think about how it feels when a roller coaster goes down a drop, you feel weightless... it's not the lack of gravity, it's the fact that you're in a free-fall that keeps you from feeling the gravity.

Answer 6

I think it's more the issue that there aren't any objects big enough to generate any gravity.
Stars and planets have gravity, but the wide expanse of space as a whole, doesn't

Answer 7

Objects like planets and stars have gravity. Space is vast nothingness sprinkled sparsely with galaxies, gasses, and rocks of different types.
Astronauts are indeed weightless because they are too far away from earth's gravitational field to affect them. They aren't falling up or down.
There is no number or formula big enough to describe the size of the universe.

Answer 8

Gravity is the ability of a planet or some other object to pull on another object. Space is so vast that different objects individual pull is irrelevant once you get to a certain distance. Nothing out there so nothing to pull on you.

Answer 9

Who said there isn't. Gravity is everywhere .. it's what keeps the universes together.

An astronaut is in continuous free-fall. Always tending to fall back to earth only his velocity keeps him and his vessel in orbit..

Answer 10

A magnet has its own gravitational field subsequently you will word repulsion and charm between magnets and ferro-magnetic components in outer area. i think of you're perplexing your question with the Compass. because of the fact the compas exhibits direction by utilizing postponing a magnet and letting its north-searching for and south-searching for pole circulate freely get attracted to the north and south poles of the earth, yet in outer area the gravitational field of earth isn't modern. subsequently the north-searching for and south-searching for poles (that are purely referred to as north and south poles) won't circulate if suspended freely. So in outerspace, a magent will artwork, yet no longer a compass.