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

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 ...

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

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

July 2025's Full Moon occurs at exactly 20:39 UTC, or 4:39 p.m. EDT, on the 10th. This view of the Buck Moon was captured by ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.