On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star ...

View Deal Waxing gibbous: The area of illumination continues to increase. More than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight. Full moon: The moon is 180 degrees away from the sun and ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Half of the moon's visible surface appears illuminated during the first quarter. Next comes the waxing gibbous moon, which is partway between a first quarter and a full moon. Halfway through the ...

New Moon, waxing crescent, First Quarter, waxing gibbous, Full Moon, waning gibbous, Last Quarter, and waning crescent. A cycle starting from one Full Moon to its next counterpart, termed the ...

Jan. 4: The waxing crescent moon and Saturn pair up high in the Southwestern sky at dusk Jan. 9: The waxing gibbous moon is in the Pleiades Star Cluster. Binoculars are recommended to see this one.

Watford photographers snapped these amazing images of the Crescent Moon close to Venus tonight as January delivers ...

The next and first full moon of the year, also known as the Wolf Moon, will be in peak view on Monday. January's full moon will reach peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET on Monday, according to NASA.

The planet is 5.5° from a waxing gibbous Moon Jan. 10, and stands 5° north and slightly east of Aldebaran Jan. 31. Jupiter’s disk spans 47″ on Jan. 1 but drops to 43″ by month’s end.

As 2025 begins, so comes the first full moon of the year. 2025's first full moon will be the last of four consecutive supermoons, according to NASA. But it's a pretty eventful lunar phase.

And if you just want to see a sliver of the moon, that happens on New Year’s Day when the waxing crescent — a thin crescent moon — will be visible just after sunset.