As of Monday, Jan. 5, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. According to The Sky Live, 95% of the moon will be lit up tonight.

Why does the same side of the Moon always face Earth? I know this is called tidal locking, but what is the underlying mechanism for this? Bill CarrollChicago, Illinois When the Moon first formed, it ...

The Moon is slowly moving away from Earth, a fact confirmed by decades of laser measurements and detailed in a recent analysis published in The Conversation. While the drift happens at a snail’s ...

This week in Starwatch I want to go back to basics when it comes to the moon. So why does the moon change shape? Why is it a crescent on one night, a half-moon another night, and a full moon on yet ...

Though decades have passed since the Space Race took place, Earth’s moon remains the only place beyond our planet where humans have set foot. As the brightest and largest object in our night sky, the ...

On December 30, the Moon is in its Waxing Gibbous phase, with an impressive 79% of its surface illuminated, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation. The Waxing Gibbous phase is characterized by ...

We're close to the New Moon, which means it's almost the beginning of a new lunar cycle. The lunar cycle is the roughly 29.5-day period during which the Moon orbits Earth and appears to change shape ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to go back to basics when it comes to the moon. So why does the moon change shape? Why is it a crescent on one night, a half-moon another night, and a full moon on yet ...

As of Wednesday, Dec. 31, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, 88% of the moon will ...