Articles for tag: DualMoon, OrbitalMechanics, SpaceScience, TwoMoons

Earth above the lunar surface

What If Earth Had Two Moons? Exploring the Science of a Dual-Moon Planet

Suhail Ahmed

  Imagine walking outside at night and seeing not one familiar full Moon, but a bright pair of worlds hanging in the sky, casting double shadows and tugging together on Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. The idea sounds like pure science fiction, yet planetary scientists regularly model similar systems when they study exoplanets and our own ...

A half moon shines brightly against a dark sky.

Why Is The Moon Moving Away From Earth: What happens Next?

Suhail Ahmed

  Night after night, our Moon is slipping away – so slowly you’d never notice, so surely that lasers can. Scientists have been timing the round‑trip blink of laser pulses off Apollo-era mirrors and finding the lunar distance grows by a few centimeters each year. That recession is more than a curiosity; it is a ...