The Moon does not make its own light like a star. The Moon appears bright because it reflects light from the Sun. Like the Earth, half of the Moon faces towards the Sun, and half faces away from it.

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

Every time we go four times around the sun, it has almost ... the entire Earth-Moon system — which is not to say that we don't know a lot about it. In fact, we know a lot about it.

Oh, and the calendar started the moment Neil Armstrong walked on the moon ... fact? You probably think of Earth as located in ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon ... Note: Moon phases in the calendar vary in size due to the distance from ...