supermoon

The very first supermoon of the year will light up the sky tomorrow night – and it's going to be even more spectacular than normal.In an astonishingly rare alignment of events, tomorrow's Wolf supermoon will be getting a triple…

A mesmerising supermoon lit up the skies last night, in a rare astronomical spectacle that won't happen again until September 2024.Stargazers were in for a treat as the so-called 'Harvest Moon' shone brightly shortly after the sun set at…

A FULL MOON  is the phase of the moon in which its whole disc is illuminated.During the 29.5-day lunar cycle, we observe a new moon (with 0 per cent illumination), a waxing moon (when the amount of illumination on the moon is…

Skygazers will want to wrap up warm to get the most awe-inspiring views of the Sturgeon 'supermoon' tonight – the first of two lunar spectacles in August alone. Such a phenomenon is rare and won't happen again until 2037, so it's not one…