According to OMSI, both lunar events are similar, with the blue moon being the second full moon of a single month. The black ...

The Moon has always influenced life on Earth, from tides to ancient calendars. But in the 2030s, a well-documented 19-year ...

A team of Chinese scientists and their overseas counterparts have, for the first time, discovered evidence of a lunar tide-induced signal in the Earth's plasmasphere, the inner region of the ...

The characteristics of lunar tidal wave in the plasmapause. ... Evidence for lunar tide effects in Earth's plasmasphere, Nature Physics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01882-8.

Although the Sun’s gravity is more powerful, our star is 390 times farther from Earth than the Moon, so lunar tides generate twice the force. As a result, days continue to grow slightly longer.