Too speedy for gravity?

Ya got trouble, my friend. Trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with G and that stands for gravity.

MYSTERY KICK. When the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission (pictured) flew past Earth on Jan. 23, 1998, it received a kick the standard theory of gravity may not explain. NASA, JHU APL

A new analysis suggests that when five different spacecraft flew past Earth several years ago, they gained more speed than can be accounted for by Einstein’s theory of gravitation.