The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the bright star Spica in the night sky tonight, ahead of its full moon phase on June 11. Skywatchers in the U.S. will find the moon above the southwestern ...

Waxing Crescent Moon near Mars and Regulus June 3 — First Quarter Moon June 10-11 — Full Strawberry Moon June 18 — Last ...

Learn about the lunar cycle, as well as the origins of the many names given to each month's full moon. A "worm moon ... it's called waxing gibbous. The word “gibbous” comes from the Latin ...

The moon is currently in its waxing gibbous phase and will enter its last ... will occasionally take on a dramatic shade of orange or red in the night sky. That's because of how sunlight strikes ...

Mars sits just to the lower right of the waxing gibbous Moon this morning. Through a telescope, the Red Planet now appears 13” wide and 96 percent lit. Because this upcoming opposition will be ...

a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing (increasing) or waning (shrinking). The eight ...