What can a moon’s tidal friction teach us about its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers at the University of ...

SwRI scientists have determined that at the rate Titan’s orbit is changing, it should have acquired a circular orbit within about 350 million years. The fact that Titan currently has a noncircular or ...

AT the Editor's request I contribute a few remarks Mr. Brooks's letter. The suggestion that tidal friction might be a cause of changes in the distribution of land and water is not new. It will be ...

TIDAL FRICTION AND THE LUNAR ACCELERATION.—Mr. G. I. Taylor contributed a paper to Phil. Trans., A vol. ccxx., on tidal friction in the Irish Sea, from which it appeared that fifty Irish Seas would ...