Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton both contributed to the discovery of gravity through experiments. Galileo conducted free fall experiments from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in which he showed that all objects fall at the same rate regardless of their mass. This disproved the then-prevailing theory. Newton later formalized the law of universal gravitation by demonstrating that gravity is what keeps the planets in orbit around the sun and causes objects to fall on Earth. He described gravity as a force that acts between any two masses.