Scientists call this synchronous rotation. The side of the moon that perpetually faces Earth is known as the near side. The opposite or "back" side is the far side.

In theory, this deceleration should end when the Earth and the moon reach a synchronous rotation—when the Earth is spinning perfectly in time with the moon’s orbit.

Earth’s large gravitational pull has raised enormous tides in the Moon’s solid body and locked our satellite into synchronous rotation — meaning it rotates once on its axis in the same ...

Don’t miss out on the light show synchronous fireflies put on! Here’s how to see them without a Great Smoky Mountains National Park pass.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park synchronous firefly viewing opportunity is typically an eight-night event in late May or early June, according to the park's website.

In the simulation that best matched the Spitzer data, LHS 3844b is locked into what’s called synchronous rotation, in which the planet rotates once every time it orbits its star.

Chang'e-6 's approximately six-minute flight from the surface capped its two-day stay on the Moon 's "dark side," so named not due to a lack of sunlight but because the Moon's synchronous rotation ...

The lunar far side is its hemisphere that always faces away from the Earth due to synchronous rotation in its orbit.