The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the ...

The next moon phase milestone will be the "last quarter moon", which is also known as the third quarter moon. It will occur on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 12:32 p.m. EDT (1732 GMT). Note local moonrise ...

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 finally waning crescent. This cycle repeats once every 29.5 days. Earth's only natural satellite is simply called ‘the ...

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 ...