Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

The Sun is a star, a giant ball of burning gas ... It takes just over 27 days for the Moon to orbit (go around) the Earth.It takes a little longer, 29.5 days, for the Moon to go through all ...

Specifically, the moon’s orbit is tilted about 5 degrees compared to the plane of Earth’s orbit around the sun. Because of this tilt, the moon — as seen from Earth’s perspective ...

A new study suggests we’d have 60-hour days by now if a stalemate between the Sun and Moon hadn’t interfered with Earth’s rotation for over a billion years. A day seems like a pretty stable ...

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