"If the moon and a planet are near Castor and Pollux you have an impressive show." From our earthly perspective, the moon and Mars will appear closest to each other at around 8 p.

New Moon, waxing crescent, 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 ...

The calendar date for Easter changes from year to year because the religious holiday is generally observed on the first ...

Venus becomes the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, the Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place and the Moon has ...

The first quarter further proceeds to expose more of the Moon in what is known as the Waxing Gibbous (Gibbous Moon) phase. This period leads to the Full Moon in a steadily growing light. The waxing ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 1, 2025, the moon is 3 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar ...

There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon, followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent.

Saturday finds the moon in a waxing gibbous phase. Of all the phases that the moon goes through over 29.5 days, a waxing gibbous is probably the most frequently observed. The word gibbous is ...