The next full moon is Saturday, Aug. 9, and is sometimes called the Sturgeon Moon. It gets that name from when "The Great Lakes and Lake Champlain sturgeon were said to be most readily caught," per ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

The July 2025 full 'Buck Moon' will give stargazers an opportunity to appreciate several distinct quirks of orbital mechanics ...

The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

The phenomenon of the Full Moon occurs when the Earth lies precisely in line in between the sun and the moon. In 2025, moon lovers can expect 12 mesmerising full moons, each with its traditional name ...

Abstract: Scintillation index (SI) is a key metric for free space optical communications (FSOC), and measures the normalised intensity variance caused by atmospheric turbulence. It is a function of ...