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See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 15, 2025, the moon is 17 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar ...
Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...
April's full moon peaks on April 12, with the Lyrid meteor shower following from April 17-26, offering 'awe while looking up ...
There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon ... portion that we can see from Earth varies, depending on the angle that we are viewing from. This changes as the Moon orbits ...
A number of people who've seen NASA's annual lunar phase and libration videos have asked what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth. This video answers ...
The Lunar X, sometimes called the Werner X, appears when the Moon orbits Earth. Sunlight hits its craters and mountains at just the right angle to create the illusion of a giant "X." This isn't a ...
The next full moon will be on Monday, May 12. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 12:56 p.m. EST (1656 GMT), but local moonrise times vary depending on location. The moon will still ...