The next full moon will be on Saturday, April 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:22 p.m. EDT (0022 GMT April 13), but local moonrise times vary depending on location.

The moon is not capable of producing its own light, so what we see from Earth is a reflection of the sun's light shining on ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...