The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, ...

Google's latest Doodle celebrates the third quarter moon phase with a fun interactive card game. The Google Rise of the Half-moon Doodle highlights the different phases of the lunar cycle ...

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

The moon will be in close conjunction with Spica every month in 2025, but this one is the nearest. Today will see a Last-Quarter (or Third-Quarter) Moon, which will appear half-illuminated and ...

These range from a banana-shaped crescent moon, a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing ...

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 satellite is simply called ‘the ...

Buena weathered a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from Emily Rea at the end of regulation and defeated Ventura in overtime to claim ...

Think of the phases labeled "new moon," "first quarter," "full moon," and "third quarter" as the numbers 12, 9, 6, and 3 on a clock, respectively. (For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere ...