An curved arrow pointing right. There are any commonly held beliefs about Earth's sun and moon that simply aren't true. Produced by Zach Wasser. Original reporting by Dave Mosher. Follow TI ...

In this myth, the sun and the moon are fighting during an eclipse, and the people encourage them to stop. "They see it as a time of coming together and resolving old feuds and anger," Holbrook says.

An ancient Indonesian myth of the Batak people, this is a sun and a moon story. Our story begins a very long time ago after the great god Mula Jadi Na Bolon sent his granddaughter Sideak Parudjar ...

Myth 3: The moon has a dark side The moon's rotation syncs ... its unseen or far side points toward the sun, bathing it in light. The first people to observe the far side of the moon with their ...

Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

Korean eclipse mythology involves fire dogs that try to steal the sun or the moon, said Krupp. On orders from a king, the mythical canines try their best to capture the fiery sun or the ice-cold moon.