The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon ... and their traditional names. The images below show the day-by-day phases ...

because the illuminated side of the moon is facing away from Earth, toward the sun. The moon is also in the sky during the day, and without its Earth-facing side illuminated by the sun ...

Passage along the path in a moonlight in a forest at night. Moonlight in enchanted forest at night. Night summer forest Time lapse of full moon rising at night in forest with scary effect and ...

Happy December! The week and month begins with a new moon in Sagittarius on the 1st. Usually new moon weeks are quieter times ...

1 at 1:21 a.m. EST (0521 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of ...

The spacecraft's Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is responsible for studying the surface of the Sun, also known as the photosphere. It does that by snapping images as well as measuring ...

A European spacecraft is showing us how dynamic the Sun is with newly released images, the highest-resolution images of our star's surface so far. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter observes ...

Making the Moon the sole focus of a shot, however, is only one way to approach lunar photography; another is for it to enhance a landscape photo, where it can provide a powerful addition to a ...

Full moons happen when the Earth is between the moon and the sun, meaning the entire face of the moon that's facing us is illuminated by the sun's rays. The moon generates no light of its own ...

NASA says that the moon will reach peak illumination starting at 4:29 p.m. EST with the sun setting that evening just a few minutes later, at 4:38 p.m. Supermoons occur as a regular part of the ...

(Representative Image) Nicknamed as a "mini ... crumbs 93 million miles from the Sun. NASA officials speculate it might be a fragment of the Earth's Moon itself from an ancient impact that has ...