When sunlight hits Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse, light frequencies toward the blue end of the visible spectrum ...

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes ... This cycle repeats once every 29.5 days. Earth's only natural satellite is simply called ‘the Moon’ because people ...

The next full moon will be on Saturday, April 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:22 p.m. EDT (0022 GMT April 13), but local moonrise times vary depending on location.

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 ...