Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night ... they rarely form a perfect line. When they do, we have a lunar eclipse as Earth's shadow crosses the moon's face. Waning gibbous: More ...

This phase is called a waxing gibbous moon. When the moon has moved 180 degrees from its new moon position, the sun, Earth and the moon form a line. The moon’s disk is as close as it can be to ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

February's full moon will shine before Valentine's Day with an added bonus view of Venus — named after the Roman goddess of love — during the month's rare planetary parade. Stargazers are in ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

From the Mason-Dixon line on North, February is often ... is more likely than any other not to have any full Moon at all. Because the lunar phase cycle is 29.5 days long, it's nigh unto impossible ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

February is when Venus — named after the Roman goddess of love — shines her brightest. Here's how to spot it and the full moon before Valentine's Day.

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 ...