When teachers explain ocean tides, they frequently describe how the moon's gravity pulls on Earth and all of its water. This, they often say, leads to a gravitational imbalance, which stretches ...

Earth has only one natural satellite, the moon, which is relatively large compared to its parent planet. It orbits Earth at ...

The moon's gravity pulls the ocean toward itself to create the near-side bulge, but this doesn't account for the bulge on the far side. Here, follow a step-through animation that explains why ...

Tiny particles within this cloud collided and clumped together, driven by gravity and chance ... Volcanic eruptions on the moon produced vast basaltic plains, known as mare, which cover about ...

But what if those skills were amplified by the lesser gravity of the moon? Produced by Justin Gmoser and Jessica Orwig. Original graphics by Dragan Radovanovic. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More ...

Gravity keeps all of the planets (including Earth) in orbit around the Sun. It also keeps the Moon in orbit around the Earth. Although every object (including you!) exerts a gravitational pull on ...