Here are the dates for the full moons in 2024. The next full moon will be on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 GMT. The moon will still appear full the night before and after its peak to ...

Moon watchers will get a special treat this month: September's full "harvest" moon is also a supermoon, meaning it's slightly bigger and brighter than an average moon. The full moon will be ...

This will be the third and closest of four supermoons in a row for 2024. A supermoon occurs when the full moon coincides with the moon being at the point in its orbit within 90% of its closest ...

A spacecraft just sped between Earth and the moon, en route to the deep solar system. And as it zipped by the cratered lunar orb on Aug. 19, the European Space Agency's Juice mission snapped views ...

First came a solar eclipse. Then a “strawberry moon.” Now, celestial enthusiasts can look forward to seeing a super blue moon this week starting Monday. The full moon, which will be both a ...

Aug. 2, 2024 — Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a ...

Although many lunar phenomena are one-night-only events, a ring around the moon is much less elusive. Also known as a lunar halo, a bright white ring of light around the moon can appear anytime ...

As the name would suggest, the upcoming full moon is a rare occurrence that won't happen again until 2037 Kelsie Gibson is the SEO Editor of PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2021.

The rare super blue moon will reach peak fullness on Monday, Aug. 19. On the heels of the Perseid meteor shower earlier this month, August is offering another great astronomical sight -- the rare ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago. September's full Harvest Moon will drift into Earth's shadow for a partial eclipse ...

The Moon is a little over a quarter the size of the Earth, with a circumference of 10,917 kilometres around the equator and a radius (the distance from the core of the Moon to the surface) of just ...

There used to be a number of theories about how the Moon was made and it was one of the aims of the Apollo program to figure out how we got to have our Moon,' says Sara. Prior to the Apollo mission ...