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

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 second full moon of the year − appropriately called the snow moon − will reach its peak Wednesday evening.

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

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.

Look about an hour before sunrise on Feb. 1 and find Venus, bright but very low, in the southeast, with much dimmer Mercury to its lower left. Far to Venus’s upper right shines Saturn, and ...

The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon. In 2025, ...

Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the synodic month or lunar month, lasts about 29.5 days.

Snow Moon tomorrow. ❄️ This time lapse video shows the Lunar Occultation of Mars visible from New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the second full moon of 2025, the Snow Moon will be visible in the night sky.