Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Google is celebrating the February moon cycle with an interactive Doodle. The moon will appear half full ...

The moon reaches its farthest point from Earth tonight, known as apogee, making it appear ever so slightly smaller in the ...

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

Google's latest Doodle celebrates the third quarter moon phase with a fun interactive card game. The Google Rise of the Half-moon Doodle highlights the different phases of the lunar cycle ...

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 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon. In 2025, ...

The Doodle commemorates October's last Quarter moon-- better known as a half moon because of its half-full appearance -- ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tonight's moon is 19 days old (past new moon), in the waning gibbous phase, and approaching its next phase, the half-lit third quarter moon, which occurs on Feb. 20. Despite the moon being half ...