An astral animated TED-Ed lesson written by Elise Cutts explains how the tides on Earth are impacted both by the sun and the ...

The reason is that the sun's gravity, in addition to influencing the height of a tide, can also influence the position of the bulges. For instance, as the moon approaches its first quarter phase ...

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 ...