Gravity is a natural phenomenon that causes all objects with mass to be attracted to one another, including planets, stars, and galaxies. Newton's law of universal gravitation describes gravity as a force proportional to the product of masses and inversely proportional to the distance between objects. Einstein's general theory of relativity proposed that gravity is not a force but a consequence of mass and energy curving spacetime. Astronauts experience weightlessness in space not because there is no gravity, but because they are falling freely with the same acceleration as the spacecraft.