Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • NEWS

How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength

Physicists have spent the past decade trying to pin down the elusive fundamental constant, to no avail.
By
  1. Elizabeth Gibney

The value of the constant that describes the gravitational pull between objects, Big G, continues to baffle scientists. A decade-long replication experiment1 that involved moving equipment across the Atlantic has resulted in a number that disagrees with previous results, and also differs from the current best estimate of G.

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Prices vary by article type

from$1.95

to$39.95

Learn more

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Nature 652, 1097-1098 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01284-3

References

  1. Schlamminger, S. et al. Metrologia 63, 025012 (2026).

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Subjects

Latest on:

Nature Careers

Jobs

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Advanced search

Quick links