The King of the Planets teams up with an exceedingly narrow crescent moon for the last time this year in the evening sky on ...

Mare Crisium, or the 'Sea of Crises', can be spotted on the night of May 30 as an oval-shaped dark patch on the moon's ...

The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the ...

Sometimes called “Planetshine” or “Earthshine,” sunlight reflected from Earth back on to the Moon’s dark limb is best seen when our satellite is in ints crescent phase. That’s this week!

Twice-reflected sunlight subtly illuminates the dark limb of the crescent moon just before and after the new moon in a phenomenon called Earthshine, or 'Da Vinci glow'. When you purchase through ...

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer ... The star's reappearance will be spectacular wherever the moon is up in a dark sky. For any place west of a line running roughly from Sault ...

That, in turn, means the part of the lunar surface that isn’t lit should be as dark as space. Yet, looking up at the moon’s thin crescent, you can see it’s not, can’t you? Instead it glows ...

It’s a phenomenon that can happen around sunset when a crescent moon is on the horizon, but the outline of a full moon is visible. The Da Vinci glow is a common occurrence, and easy to see ...