As of Monday, Aug. 4, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, the moon will be 77% lit up tonight, the 11th day of the lunar cycle.

Each year, as Earth completes a single orbit around the Sun, the Moon orbits our globe about 13 times. From our viewpoint, it’s easy to imagine the Moon tracing out the Sun’s path along the ...

Have you ever wondered why the Earth doesn’t fall straight into the Sun, despite being constantly pulled by its immense ...

Because of the way the moon orbits the Earth, and because the Earth orbits the sun, there are always between two and five a year visible from somewhere on our planet, according to the Observatory.

The Earth’s radius is 3.7 times that of the Moon, so it has 13.4 times the surface area. The Moon’s albedo is 0.136, while the Earth’s is 0.434, making the Earth 3.2 times as reflective.

The tidal bulge of Earth's oceans moves along with the Moon as it orbits the planet. A second, smaller tidal bulge points towards and away from the Sun. Diagram is not to scale!.

Apollo 9 had to go through that, but in Earth orbit without actually landing on anything. Amy Shira Teitel: This is the really interesting part about the lunar module and its design.

We cannot change the Earth's or Moon's orbit. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. — Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) June 9, 2021 ...