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

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

When they do, we have a lunar eclipse as Earth's shadow crosses the moon's face. Waning gibbous: More than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight, but the amount is decreasing.

There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon, followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent.

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

The Moon reaches a Waning Gibbous (Disseminating Moon) when the light shed on the Moon disseminates with time. The Waning Gibbous proceeds to the third quarter of the Moon phase. The third quarter of ...