The moon reached its peak brightness at 8:53 a.m. EST (1353 GMT) on Feb. 12, but local moonrise and moonset times will depend ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Skywatchers in central Florida and southern Texas can witness a rare lunar standstill on Feb. 7, as the waxing gibbous moon ...

However, the moon's orbit around Earth is tilted about 5 degrees relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun. This is why lunar eclipses don't occur every full moon—they only happen when the moon's ...

Here's how it works: The plane of the Moon’s orbit around Earth is tilted to the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. ... [+] (A plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface: imagine a pancake ...

But the Earth is tilted - so, its spin axis is tilted ... to make up for the quarter days in Earth's orbit. The time for the Moon to go through a complete cycle (from a full Moon to the next ...