The next full moon will be on Saturday, April 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:22 ... due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned ...

That's because the Earth and moon are in what's called synchronous rotation. Which means every time the moon rotates once on its axis, it also completes one orbit around the Earth. As a result ...

A lunar day means the time taken by the moon to complete one rotation on its own axis. The moon is tidally locked to the earth. This means one side of the moon is always facing the earth.

The Earth’s axis is at right angles to the line from sun to Earth, the sun is directly over the equator and the lengths of ...

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 ...

A Kansas University expert has outlined why he believes images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope provide evidence the ...