Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The twelfth and final full moon of 2024 — the “Cold Moon” — ...

The sky will offer up an early Christmas present this weekend: The year's final full moon, known as the cold moon, will appear early Sunday, Dec. 15. Though the moon will officially be full Sunday, it ...

The last full moon of 2024 is upon us and it is a cold one. The December 2024 full moon will rise on Sunday, but Tennesseans might have a hard time viewing the celestial event due to rain predictions ...

The final full moon of 2024 will rise as far north as it ever does — a phenomenon that happens every 18.6 years called a "major lunar standstill." December's full moon, also known as the cold moon, ...

Welcome to the last full moon story of 2024. This year, the sky has been filled with many astronomical phenomena. We’ve had the northern lights, a solar eclipse, a partial lunar eclipse, and ...

Something rare is happening in the skies in the next few days — a black moon. This rare celestial event is due to an unusual calendar alignment: two new moons in one month. The first occurred on Dec.

Good news for astrophiles! Before we bid goodbye to 2024, we could see a rare astronomical event lighting up the night sky. On December 30-31, a rare ‘black moon’ will illuminate the sky. You must ...

After back-to-back supermoons in August, September, October and November, we're back to a regular full moon in December. But the December full moon is not insignificant, coming as it does in proximity ...

A rare astronomical event will occur on December 30, 2024, marking the arrival of a "black moon." This occurrence pertains to the second new moon within a calendar month, a rare phenomenon that takes ...