The very same tree from which Isaac Newton came up with the law of gravity is still alive and thriving in Woolsthorpe Manor, England, in Newton’s family home and where he spent his childhood.

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 ...

The hyper-rational world of science has always made a bit of room to accommodate legend and William & Mary will soon be home to a living piece of one of the most well-known scientific legends: a ...

A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton has bought a sapling from the apple tree said to have inspired the theory of gravity so that he can grow it at the family's cider farm. Giles Wood, 68, from Dorset ...

The tree is reputed to be the one from which in 1665 fell the apple that helped Sir Isaac Newton formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation. The original tree died about 1815-1820.

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 ...

It doesn’t look like much—a slender five-foot wand topped by the barest wisp of dried leaf—but it is in fact a descendant of one of the world’s most famous trees—the apple tree that inspired Isaac ...

Piers Seller, a U.K. native, will bring a bit of the tree into space on the next shuttle mission. Sir Isaac Newton hatched his theory of gravity in the 1600s after he witnessed an apple from the ...

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 ...

The seeds of Newton's famous apple tree eventually spread to six continents. "Newton's tree can be found across the globe , from America to Japan," said Michalak. Many of those outside of the UK ...

The tree has fallen far from the apple. The original that inspired the scientist 348 years ago still stands in the English countryside, but cuttings from it have been planted all over the world ...

An auction of 10 saplings from the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton has raised more than £30,000 to help the upkeep of his birthplace. It is believed the scientist's home in Woolsthorpe ...