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.

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 ...

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 ...