The moon is not capable of producing its own light, so what we see from Earth is a reflection of the sun's light shining on ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...