One factor that Triton and our moon share is that both orbit at a tilted angle - for Triton that's 67 degrees away from the planet's equator. It seems the math adds up to this being a possibility ...

However, the moon's orbit is tilted by about 5 degrees, so it usually misses the sun from our perspective. Only when it aligns perfectly do we witness a solar eclipse. How can that happen when the ...

But the Earth is tilted - so, its spin axis is tilted ... to make up for the quarter days in Earth's orbit. The time for the Moon to go through a complete cycle (from a full Moon to the next ...