Tonight's blue full moon will blaze the sky in red as the first supermoon of 2024. Here's what to know about August's fishy sturgeon moon.

Monday marks a rare cosmic event: a blue supermoon. It’s a combination of a supermoon, when it’s closest to Earth, and a blue moon, which is the third of four full moons in a season.

There was an opportunity Thursday night to catch the March 2025 "Blood Moon," a phenomenon that colors the full moon in shades of red, orange and yellow during a total lunar eclipse.

A tiny red Swedish-style cottage is set to become the Moon’s first "building," part of an ambitious art project now en route to the lunar north pole.

The moon looks red during a lunar eclipse because the sunlight that isn’t blocked is filtered through the Earth’s atmosphere, according to NASA. The blue part scatters away and only the red ...

The blue light from the sun scatters away, and longer-wavelength red, orange, and yellow light pass through, turning our moon red. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio ...

A blue moon refers to the third full moon in a season with four full moons, as is the case with this full moon. It can also refer to the second full moon in a month with two full moons.