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 ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – It’s a treat that occurs every month and for February, it’s the Full Snow Moon that lights up the night sky.

View Deal Waxing gibbous: The area of illumination continues to increase. More than half of the moon's face appears ... However, this is a very simplified description since the lunar motion ...

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 (increasing) or waning (shrinking). The eight ...

first quarter moon, waxing gibbous moon, full moon, waning gibbous moon, last quarter moon, waning crescent moon. The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of ...

After the Moon reached its first quarter phase on February 5, about three quarters of the waxing gibbous Moon's surface will be visible tonight as it transitions towards its full Moon phase.

New Moon, waxing crescent, First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the ...

Earth's Moon, the planet's only natural satellite, is so close that you can see some of its surface features with the naked eye—but only when it's at least partially illuminated by the Sun.

The dwarf planet 1 Ceres is in conjunction with the Sun at 5 P.M. EST today. While this means we can’t see Ceres for now, we can see Venus — which is at its brightest, reaching greatest ...

Friday, Jan. 31: Crescent Moon And Saturn In Conjunction Now, at 7%-lit, the waxing crescent moon will be more easily visible in the west sky after sunset tonight and shine just a degree from Saturn.