Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, ...

or "gibbous," shape until it reaches the full moon stage. Then it will repeat the steps in reverse as it heads back to a new moon. You can see what today's moon phase is here with the embedded ...

The second full moon of the year − appropriately called the snow moon − will reach its peak Wednesday evening.

Still, the Moon appears between 90 and 60% full during the waning gibbous phase. As the Moon continues its orbit, with less sunlight, the Moon rises later each night.

The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky tonight. As the sun sets this evening (Feb. 9), the moon ...

it experiences several phases of partial light. These range from a banana-shaped crescent moon, a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it ...