Discover what a new moon is and when the next new moon will occur with our new moon 2025 guide.

As of Friday, Feb. 27, the Moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Guide, 80% of the Moon will be lit up tonight.

Explanation of why the Moon turns red during a total lunar eclipse, detailing the March 3 event, Earth’s shadow phases, atmospheric refraction, and eclipse season timing.

Learn the lunar cycle and 2026 moon phases, including new moon, full moon, and quarter phases. Discover dates, illumination, and tidal effects from NASA and Space.com.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes ...

Thanks to our lunar cycle, the moon is always changing how it appears to us. Tonight's moon is a little shy, and we can explain why. The lunar cycle is a series of eight phases of the moon's ...

January's full Moon reaches peak illumination at 6:14 p.m. EST on Jan. 3, more than an hour after moonrise, so it should be well clear of the horizon. But astronomy aficionados don't need to be ...

For as long as humans have gazed upward, the moon has been our constant nocturnal companion. It has shifted, glowed, and ...

The full moon this month is on Aug. 9, coming days before another stunning sight that Californians will want to see — the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. The full moon will reach peak illumination ...