Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...
Tides come from a difference in gravity across an object. The force of gravity exerted by the Moon is about 4% stronger on the side of Earth that faces toward the Moon, compared to the opposite side ...
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The Moon Used to Be Much Closer to Earth. It’s Drifting 1.5 Inches Farther From Earth Every Year and It’s Slowly Making Our Days Longer
So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...
The 2025 Solar Eclipse will occur on September 21. It will be a partial solar eclipse. Google has created a special surprise ...
On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...
We already knew that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was different from the other two interstellar objects known to have ...
Solar activity has been on an overall decline since the ‘80s and scientists were expecting us to plunge into a historic low ...
Comet 21p/Giacobini-Zinner is a highlight of September 2018 skywatching. See its orbit in this animation. Credit: Space.com / animation courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech / produced and edited by Steve ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...
(Related reading: The impacts that gave us the Moon may explain why Earth has life today) ...
SAN FRANCISCO – Southern California startup DeepSat won a $1.25 million U.S. Air Force contract to develop very low Earth orbit (VLEO) monitoring capabilities. “Our focus is on using the best ...
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