Defending champion Travis Gienger from Minnesota won his third straight Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay Monday with another gargantuan gourd. Crowds gathered Monday ...

Defending champion Travis Gienger of Minnesota won top prize in the 51st annual Safeway World Champion Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay on Monday. His 2,471-pound prize gourd came just 8 pounds ...

Gienger’s winner will be one of the star attractions at this weekend’s Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival, with an appearance in the noontime parade. (Matt Williams of the San Francisco ...

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (KGO) -- Growers from across the country have made their way to Half Moon Bay for a popular fall tradition, the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Coming in at ...

Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Google is educating users about the lunar cycle with its latest interactive Doodle released Thursday. The Doodle commemorates October's last Quarter moon -- better known as a half ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Just steps away from Half Moon Bay, head to Smiling Harry’s and enjoy some authentic Antiguan cuisine, including curry goat and grilled fish. – Kristin Braswell You'll ...

The First Quarter Moon, also known as the first half moon of the month because the moon appears half-illuminated as seen from Earth, marks the time when the moon is a quarter of its way through ...

If you are interested in Hindu mythology, there is a fascinating story behind the fading phase of the moon, known as Chandra's waxing and waning. In the Mahabharata, specifically in the Shalya ...

While it doesn't exactly look like a major departure from the suits worn by NASA astronauts over half a century ago beyond ... Lunar Terrain Vehicle, a Moon buggy being developed by NASA.

The suit is far more elaborate than the long-ago Mercury model and far more expensive, the product of a $228-million contract ...

I remember watching the full moon rise one early evening a while back ... you’d likely respond that it’s a hemisphere, a half of a sphere. But we don’t actually perceive it that way!

At these times the moon and sun form a line with the earth, so their tidal effects add together. The sun exerts a little less than half the tidal force of the moon. "Neap" tides, on the other hand ...