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

The celestial event is visible only when there's a crescent moon on the horizon at sunrise or sunset. During the phenomenon, the crescent part of the moon glows brightly, and the dark side of the ...

“There is no dark side ... and where it’s dark, it’s nighttime. Astronomers call the line between day and night the terminator, and when the moon is new and a thin crescent, that line ...

Some people call this short phase the ‘dead Moon’ because the lunar face is in total darkness, there is no solar reflection. The dark lasts about three days before the new crescent appears.

The best way to view its phase is through a telescope not long after the Sun has set — the brighter background ... Wait until dark and find the waxing crescent Moon, sitting near a curve of ...

The crescent moon can be seen ... surface onto the (relatively) nearby moon. This phenomenon, known as Earthshine, is capable of revealing the presence of dark features on the lunar surface ...

as two planets join the crescent Moon to form a smile over the horizon. Stargazers may also catch a glimpse of "Earthshine," a soft glow of sunlight reflected from Earth that illuminates the dark ...