Learn more about tides and tidal bulge, and how they’re contributing to the moon drifting away.

Recent scientific research has unearthed an intriguing proposition that Earth may have once been orbited by two moons instead of one. This radical idea not only challenges our understanding of the ...

The moon had a fluctuating orbit around the Earth, but recent changes in distance could be caused by the tidal force shifting the planet’s mass.

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Due to the influence the Earth plays on the moon’s momentum, the Earth’s rotation slows down in response, as explained by ...