The waxing phase, which includes the waxing crescent, the first quarter ... It is the time to get rid of all that is old and past to create room for the new. The light decreases, and darkness takes ...

A lunar eclipse will fall across North America Thursday night, March 13th through dawn Friday, March 14th. The March Full ...

Ramadan is not uniformly observed globally — the start date can vary by country or even be different mosque to mosque in the ...

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

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

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

Probably the best-known phase ... determine a crescent moon sighting. “One is by seeing it, and one is by calculating it astronomically,” Kugle said. “And the traditional, old-fashioned ...

The Old Farmer's Almanac uses names ... it experiences several phases of partial light. These range from a banana-shaped crescent moon, a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon.