Half of the moon will be illuminated as it reaches its first quarter phase on Monday, June 2. The first quarter phase marks ...

Countless shadowed craters line the terminator all the way down to the moon's southern pole, while the 54-mile-wide (87 km) ...

The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

Sky watchers have two prime nights to catch the June full moon at its brightest before it dims to 98% illumination ...

away from the sun, increasingly more of its sunlit surface is visible. This is why the moon sometimes appears as a crescent or half-moon. When it’s farther from the sun and visible above the ...

Earth's moon reaches its last quarter phase later ... disk will be bisected by the terminator, with the left half illuminated by the sun, and the right drenched in shadow, throwing several large ...

Moongazers are in for a special sighting this year. June's 'Strawberry Moon' is not only the lowest-hanging full moon since ...

Keep an eye out for June’s full strawberry moon, which will appear low in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as the Milky Way ...

Yup. Look, I can prove it. Here's a plot of the trajectories of the Earth and moon as they orbit the sun over the course of half a month. The blue curve is the path of the Earth going from left to ...

Half of the moon will be illuminated as it reaches its first quarter phase on Monday, June 2. The first quarter phase marks the quarter point on the moon's monthly journey, according to NASA.