Neal Stephenson’s 2015 sci-fi novel “Seveneves” begins with, “The moon blew up with no warning and no apparent reason.” It turns out that scientists think his ideas of what might happen ...

The other moon names describe the brutal cold weather of the season: – Cold Moon (Cree) – Frost Exploding Moon (Cree) February’s Snow Moon will peak illumination at around 8:53 a.m. ET on ...

Cold Moon (Cree), Frost Exploding Moon (Cree), Freeze Up Moon (Algonquin), and Severe Moon (Dakota). Hard Moon (Dakota) highlights the phenomenon of the fallen snow developing a hard crust," the ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.

Astronomers have just made a bold prediction—that an exploding star dubbed “Supernova ... Once in a “Blue Moon?” Try twice! There are two kinds of “Blue Moon,” the scientific type ...