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 just by looking up.

Google's latest Doodle celebrates the third quarter moon phase with a fun interactive card game. The Google Rise of the Half-moon Doodle highlights the different phases of the lunar cycle ...

first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and waning crescent. If you look up at the Moon and wonder, "What phase of the Moon is that?" NASA also has this daily guide ...

The moon will be in close conjunction with Spica every month in 2025, but this one is the nearest. Today will see a Last-Quarter (or Third-Quarter) Moon, which will appear half-illuminated and ...

Think of the phases labeled "new moon," "first quarter," "full moon," and "third quarter" as the numbers 12, 9, 6, and 3 on a clock, respectively. (For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere ...

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 ...