Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO The Moon is about 239,000 miles (385,000 km) from Earth, how can ...

Earth's slowing rotation, caused by the Moon's gravitational pull, is lengthening days and affecting life. Learn how this ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

When the moon is in the First or Last Quarter, forming a 90° angle with the sun and the Earth, the tides are minimal because the attractive forces of the sun and moon oppose each other.

So, every day is getting just a touch bit longer. In 1900, a day was exactly 24 hours in length, but an analysis of ...

shrouding its Earth-facing side in darkness. How does the Full Moon influence tides? The Moon’s gravitational tug causes Earth’s waters to bulge, birthing tides. During both Full and New Moons ...

The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space ... the motion of other liquid masses on Earth, including magma below the planet's ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...