Here's what to know about May's special full moon and when to watch. A full moon is one of the lunar phases where the entire visible side of the moon, facing Earth, is illuminated by the sun.

If you click on Friday's Google Doodle, celebrating the lunar cycle, you'll go into a click-to-play card battler that turns the moon's eight phases into your own personal combo deck. In the game ...

Craters, ravines and mountain ranges tend to blend into the lunar surface during a full moon phase, rendering them hard to spot as the sun's light strikes the moon's surface head-on from our ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

May’s brightest moon phase is also known as the “milk moon” from the Old English word “rimilcemona,” which means three-milkings-month and signifies the cows that were milked three times ...

That’s when you look outside and notice the glowing full moon hovering above. And suddenly it all makes sense. For centuries, humans have connected lunar phases with everything from fertility to ...

The next full moon will be on Wednesday, June 11. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 3:44 a.m. EDT (0744 GMT), but local moonrise times vary depending on location. The moon will still ...

[Simone Giertz] built a flip clock moon phase tracker for a friend. While in Egypt for Cairo Maker Faire, [Giertz] and [dina Amin] found some old flip clocks at a flea market and had to have them.

First Quarter: Half the Moon is lit up and visible. It's one-quarter of the way through its cycle.

Learn the science behind the moon phases and how to identify them. I know we're focusing on the moon in this blog, but the sun plays a role. Get this. The sun always illuminates half of the moon. So ...