Find out here. * According to Galileo, tides were caused by the combined motion of the Earth rotating on its axis and its movement around the sun. To find out more, see His Big Mistake within the ...

This global water pressure works against Earth's gravity to form two bulges: the high tides. "The ocean isn't being lifted or stretched," Perez-Giz says. "The ocean is bulging along the Earth-moon ...

Although tides are affected mainly by the moon's gravity ... This inclination causes the tidal bulges to often form above and below the equator. When this happens, it's possible for locations ...

A white tide is formed by an explosive increase of phytoplankton, but the specific mechanism remains a mystery since it rarely occurs and little research has been conducted on it. “The ...