Because the Earth is doing the work of increasing the Moon's momentum, the Earth's rotation slows down in turn, as its ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The 2025 Solar Eclipse will occur on September 21. It will be a partial solar eclipse. Google has created a special surprise ...
We already knew that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was different from the other two interstellar objects known to have ...
On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...
A violent storm swept across southern Germany some 150 million years ago, lifting two immature pterosaurs high above the ...
The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...
More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has become increasingly crowded with launches from SpaceX and others that have ...
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 ...
(Related reading: The impacts that gave us the Moon may explain why Earth has life today) ...
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