When the night sky is draped in darkness and the moon appears as just a sliver of light, you’re looking at the waning crescent moon. This phase is a fascinating period just before the new moon ...

The sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the moon. Waning crescent: Less than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight, and the amount is decreasing.

The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon. In 2025, ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

The second full moon of the year − appropriately called the snow moon − will reach its peak Wednesday evening.

A 10 percent waning crescent moon illuminated with earthshine rises behind the Empire State Building ... [+] before sunrise in New York City on October 11, 2023, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey.

Snow Moon tomorrow. ❄️ This time lapse video shows the Lunar Occultation of Mars visible from New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan.

followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent. This cycle repeats once every 29.5 days. Earth's only natural ...

It is what astronomers call the "greatest illuminated extent" of this planet's disk. And be sure to get outside after sunset tonight (Feb. 1). For that evening a lovely crescent moon will appear to ...

Opportunities to see four or more naked-eye planets confined in a small piece of the night sky are rare events. The last chance we had to see four planets in a compact bunch happened six years ...

The autumn stars are moving in, and so is autumn itself. But September has only one big story this year: the moon. A warm-up to the show happens the morning of the 10th, when a waning crescent ...