A conjunction between a crescent moon and Mars joins an ongoing display of 'shooting stars,' making July 28 one of the best ...

The Waxing Crescent Moon will be in the western sky each night to start off the month, until the First Quarter Moon on the 5th. The second week of the month will feature a Waxing Gibbous Moon until ...

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, a rare and mesmerizing astronomical event will captivate early risers across North America. The waning crescent moon, which will be just 24% illuminated, will pass ...

The Waxing Crescent Moon will be in the western sky from the first to the third of the month, in the hours just after sunset. Look on the night of the 3rd to see it near the planet Mars and the ...

The moon's crescent will grow steadily larger in the runup to its first quarter phase on June 2, at which point half of its disk will be lit by direct sunlight from the perspective of Earth.

The planet Mercury sits 3.5° to the left of a two-day-old crescent Moon in the evening sky tonight. At magnitude 0.1, Mercury is still bring and nearly 6° high in the west an hour after sunset.

The crescent Moon is now just over 40 percent lit. First-magnitude Saturn is visible to the naked eye, but 8th-magnitude Neptune is not.