As of Sunday, Nov. 2, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. There will be 87% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.

For centuries, people have blamed the full moon for stirring up madness. Folklore suggested that its glow could spark mania in bipolar disorder, provoke seizures in people with epilepsy or trigger ...

The glow of the moon will even cast faint shadows on the ground, a rare effect visible only during the most intense ...

The name beaver moon comes from beavers building their lodges for winter during this time of year, and the history of ...

Watch the moon phases and libration for 2024, as seen from Earth's Southern Hemisphere, in this time-lapsed animation that is ...

For thousands of years, ancient civilizations organized their lives around the moon rather than the sun. They tracked lunar ...

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, ...

Here's what to know about the beaver moon, the next full moon and penultimate supermoon of 2025, which will illuminate skies ...

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the Moon. It guides sleep, ...

Before the next full moon, this weekend's sky with be ablaze with Orionids bright meteor shower display amid a waning crescent moon and another active meteor shower — the Southern Taurids. The next ...

Abstract: Phase observations of decorrelating targets are subject to speckle noise. However, state-of-the art estimates of the associated uncertainties based on the Gaussian speckle model are biased ...

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