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

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 12, 2025, the moon is 14 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

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 ...

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting ...

The moon, our closest celestial neighbor, has been a source of wonder, inspiration, and mystery for centuries. Its phases—waxing, waning, full, and new—are more than just a mesmerizing light show in ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...