King Tides, formally known as Perigean-Spring Tides, are exceptionally high tides. These usually occur about three times a ...

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are ...

If you happened to glance up to the sky last night, you would have noticed that the Moon was missing. That’s because the New Moon has arrived. Traditionally, that means it's a good time to start your ...

At many ocean beaches, full and new moons coincide with the greatest concentrations of bacteria in the water, researchers in California have determined. The new finding suggests that extreme tides, ...

Charter captains like myself and other experienced fishers carefully consider the moon phase and tidal pattern when we plan a day of successful fishing. To put together a successful fishing plan, ...

A perigee moon triggered extreme tides that flooded coastal North Jakarta, exposing worsening risks from land subsidence and ...

Other than it being the second brightest object in the sky after the sun, the moon remains an enigma. The ancients believed it to be a goddess, given its feminine attributes and glimmering lure, but ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - The WMBF First Alert Weather team gave you the First Alert to Spring Tides this week, which could cause some minor flooding for parts of the Grand Strand. But what makes ...

Today, Nov. 22, 2025, the moon is 2 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 5% illuminated.