The next full moon will be on Saturday. Aug. 9. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 3:55 a.m. EDT (0755 GMT), but local moonrise times vary depending on location. The moon will still ...

Today, the moonlight and meaning woven into the folklore of the full moon’s many names continue to shape how we read the sky ...

Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

July’s full moon is called "the Buck Moon” because in July, velvet antler growth, called antlerogenesis, makes an older ...

Ancient humans used the moon as a calendar in the sky. ... On a bone shard from a prehistoric settlement called Abri Blanchard in France, dating to 28,000 years ago, he found a pattern of pits, ...

Get ready for a spectacle that promises to move the sky and the heart: the Buck Moon, which this year arrives in its most ...

Early Roman calendars were 10 months and used the moon as a timekeeper, but astrologers soon noticed the need for extra days to move around to align with the moon patterns, according to Britannica.

The moon dictates the pushes and pulls of the tides, but it could also affect our sleep. As we head toward the first full moon of the year on Thursday night, take note: In the days leading up to a ...

Scientists have charged up an old moon mystery. New research suggests that swirling designs on the dusty lunar surface might be the product of electric fields generated by pockets of magnetic ...

Strange bright patterns on the moon’s surface called lunar swirls don’t seem to be simply draped across the ground, as researchers thought, but instead correlate with topographical changes.

Scientists already knew about the Jan. 3, 1975, moonquake. It was the most powerful of 28 that showed up in data from seismometers left behind by the Apollo 12, 14, 15 and 16 astronauts.