You may want to look up on Tuesday and Wednesday nights to catch a special sight in the sky: a supermoon, the closest of the year. But with the impressive display, South Florida can also expect a ...

Today’s super new moon is 2026’s closest new moon, with a similar phenomena in August causing a total solar eclipse.

In the wake of recent widespread flooding, Brevard County is bracing for a week of king tides, as our moon comes about as close to Earth as it gets. Luckily, there's no significant rain in this week's ...

A king tide is a non-scientific term used to describe exceptionally high tides. Higher than normal tides typically occur during a new or full moon when the moon is at its closest position to Earth.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...

A new round of king tides — higher-than-usual oceanic tides, caused by the moon’s alignment with the Earth — arrived Friday, coinciding with a set of storms that started to drop rain earlier in the ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. The big picture of the moon’s origin is fairly well established.

The Moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) farther away from the Earth every year. Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and ...