PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - When you're at the beach you undoubtedly notice what looks like the tide moving in and out. While it seems like the tides move in and out over the course of the day, the tides do ...

Here we investigate a simple process, wherein the Earth’s tidal pull promotes intense hydrodynamic escape from the liquid surface of a molten proto-Moon assembling at 3-6 Earth radii. Such ...

A team of astrophysicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) has revealed how the slow and steady lengthening of Earth’s day caused by the tidal pull of the moon was halted for over a billion years ...

Planets like Proxima Centauri b experience tides hundreds of times stronger than ones that move Earth’s oceans twice a day. The force of those tides also tugs on the planet’s atmosphere, but a recent ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) instruments recently captured this detailed close-up view of lopsided spiral galaxy M66. The galaxy is lopsided thanks to the tidal pull of its two partners in ...

Astrophysicists have revealed how the slow and steady lengthening of Earth's day caused by the tidal pull of the moon was halted for over a billion years. They show that from approximately two billion ...