that has been nicknamed a “black moon.” A new moon is one of the moon’s eight phases. It marks its invisible phase, with the illuminated side facing the sun and the night side facing the Earth.

Every so often a new moon is known as a "Black Moon". A Black Moon is not an official astronomical term but there are two common definitions for the term according to Time and Date: The next black ...

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 ...

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 ...