Until now, he explained, astronomers looked for evidence of dark matter only through its gravitational influence on bright galaxies.

They detected what could be the gravitational influence of this matter on light from a distant star.

Under the close gravitational influence, the crust seemed to slip in its rotation.

Even a black hole casts its gravitational influence on stars only within a few tens of light years.

They had been the first people ever to leave the gravitational influence of the Earth and orbit another celestial body.

Here, too, mass is a key property in determining the gravitational influence of matter.

The gravitational influence of Pluto is usually neglected given its small mass.

Material that would normally fall back to the moon is pulled into Jupiter because of its strong gravitational influence.

"The ship's present course will take it into the white dwarf's gravitational influence within six hours."

On Earth, the gravitational influence of the Moon has a much greater effect.