Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

First quarter: The moon is 90 degrees away from ... The sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the moon. Waning crescent: Less than half of the moon's face appears ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

First Quarter, waxing gibbous, 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 ...

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

On the night of Feb. 5, a waxing gibbous moon will once again cover up the "Seven Sisters" of the famous Pleiades star ...

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 ...

Around midnight tonight in the east, a 55%-lit waning ... 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 ...

a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing (increasing) or waning (shrinking). The eight ...