or "gibbous," shape until it reaches the full moon stage. Then it will repeat the steps in reverse as it heads back to a new moon. You can see what today's moon phase is here with the embedded ...

The striking X mark on the moon, which requires a certain amount of luck to be spotted, will be visible for around four hours ...

Saturday finds the moon in a waxing gibbous phase. Of all the phases that the moon goes through over 29.5 days, a waxing ...

A moon phase is the shape of the moon as seen from Earth, which changes over a lunar month. Before we delve into each phase individually, let's take a moment to orient ourselves in the moon phases ...

The Lunar X, sometimes called the Werner X, appears when the Moon orbits Earth. Sunlight hits its craters and mountains at ...

Luna skims by Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter as it grows from a thin crescent to just past First Quarter in the ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

A treat awaits sky gazers in the month of March – the moon will take on a deep, reddish hue as it slips into the Earth’s shadow during a total lunar eclipse.

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

Lunar enthusiasts can catch a glimpse of the "Lunar X" tonight, a striking criss-cross shape on the moon that can only be seen in the hours around its first quarter phase. The unique, 50-mile-wide ...