Californians have plenty more chances to catch a rocket launch in June from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

because the moon is in synchronous rotation with the Earth. In other words, the moon is tidally locked to the Earth so its same side always faces us. That's why, for decades scientists have been ...

Two SpaceX rockets have soared over California so far in June after launching from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, and more ...

June 7 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched SiriusXM's second new satellite into orbit from Florida early Saturday after five delays. The ...

The reason we only ever see one side or hemisphere of the moon is that it is tidally locked, or in a synchronous rotation, with the Earth. This phenomenon occurs between two co-orbiting astronomical ...

The Moon is one of the most fascinating objects in the sky, and one of its most notable characteristics is the fact that it always shows the same face to Earth. This phenomenon, known as ...

The Moon formed close to Earth from the debris created by the collision of a Mars-sized body with the proto-Earth. Prior to being tidally locked into synchronous rotation — which keeps the same ...

While one side of the moon always faces Earth due to synchronous rotation, both sides receive sunlight over the lunar cycle. The so-called "dark side" is merely the far side not visible from Earth.

This is called synchronous rotation, which means that as the Moon revolves around Earth, it rotates just once, keeping a single hemisphere permanently facing our planet. It wasn’t always so.

or the area of the planet’s surface that would always be facing the system’s host star due to the planet’s synchronous rotation (much like the Earth’s moon). MacDonald conducted the atmospheric ...