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 ...

Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its momentum goes to the Moon. To put it another way, as the Moon's orbital momentum ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...

The crescent moon will shine with Jupiter among the stars of Gemini early on Sept. 16. Turn your eyes to the east in the ...

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Faint radio signals from the early Universe, soon detectable by Moon missions, may reveal how dark matter shaped gas cooling ...

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...