See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2024. Today, Nov. 10, 2024, the moon is 9 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar ...

Can you guess? It's the scientific part. The scientific explanation for the moon's phases is due to its position in relation to the Earth and the sun, causing different portions of the moon to be ...

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

The phases of the moon are actually just a result of our perception of the moon's half-illuminated surface. When the moon does pass through Earth's shadow the result is a lunar eclipse.