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

first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent. As the moon orbits Earth, the sun illuminates different parts of the lunar surface, creating the ...

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 ...

It’s a treat that occurs every month and for February, it’s the Full Snow Moon that lights up the night sky. The moon ...

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 ...

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

Today will see a Last-Quarter (or Third-Quarter ... about three hours before sunrise will be a 26%-lit waning crescent moon barely a third of a degree from Antares, the “Heart of the Scorpion ...

(In the Southern Hemisphere, a waning moon appears lit on the right side.) A third quarter moon looks a lot like a first quarter moon—both appear as a half circle to our eye. But, again ...