The extra 50 minutes is how long it takes any spot on the Earth to "catch up" to the moon's new position. Why do the biggest tides happen when the moon is new and full? Although tides are affected ...

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 ...

Despite what frequent Venice visitor Galileo Galilei thought, tides are indeed related to the motion of the moon (and to a lesser extent, the sun).* Two oceanic bulges—one on the side of the ...