Google users will see an image of the half moon winking above the search bar. When they click the play button, they are taken to a "card ga ...

The moon will be only 61% illuminated and not quite so dazzling, making this upcoming occultation easy to see and enjoy.

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

Image caption, When the Moon is one quarter of the way around its orbit, we see half of the visible surface of the Moon illuminated – a first quarter Moon. Image caption, As the Moon continues ...

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 falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing ...

The Half Moon, also known as the first quarter or third quarter moon, represents a crucial transition in the lunar cycle. It marks the shift between the waxing phase (where the moon appears to ...