Each month, as day and night sweep across the lunar nearside, the sunlit part of our view takes on a series of familiar shapes: crescent ... to see the Moon’s actual color from a distance.

Related: What you can see in the night sky tonight On the nights before and after a new moon, when just a thin crescent is present, it is sometimes possible to make out the stunning effect known ...

The crescent moon will complete a celestial smiley ... referred to as a “blood moon”, a name derived from the color the moon takes on during the eclipse. While a solar eclipse plunges the ...

A striking new photo captures a colorful conjunction of Venus and ... It shows a bright crescent moon and one of our closest planetary neighbors almost perfectly aligned with a beam of blue ...

But what unites all Muslims is the observance of the new crescent moon in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. For instance, in Saudi Arabia, where Islam was first established by the prophet ...