supermoon

If you miss Wednesday night's blue super moon, you'll have to wait nearly a decade to see one again. Plus, it's not the only surprise in the sky this week.

I usually try to give you a few days notice of celestial happenings like this one, but somehow Wednesday's supermoon occurrence completely slipped past my attention. Just so it doesn't slip your mind too, you might want to go ahead and set your alarm to go off a bit earlier than normal tomorrow morning.

The Farmers’ Almanac says that northeastern Native American tribes referred to the second full moon of winter as the Snow Moon because of February’s heavy snow.

Wow! Here it comes, the first harvest moon of 2018. Here's when and what you can expect.

Sky watchers, if you missed the supermoon that happened last weekend, no worries you'll get two more chances to see it in 2016.

It hasn't happened since 1982, and the next one won't be until 2033. It's not just a "supermoon," it's a "supermoon eclipse." And, it's a fairly rare event. There have been just 5 supermoon eclipses since 1900 (1910, 1928, 1946, 1964, and 1982, if you must know)...