What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 17, 2025, the moon is 18 days old, in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 84% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Next, the moon moves until more than half of its face appears to be getting sunlight, but the amount is decreasing. This is the waning gibbous phase. Days later, the moon has moved another quarter ...

Still, the Moon appears between 90 and 60% full during the waning gibbous phase. As the Moon continues its orbit, with less sunlight, the Moon rises later each night.

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

Our moon goes through phases, sometimes turning red or disappearing into shadows. Here's what you need to know about the full moon.

The table below elucidate the four primary phases of the Moon, each of them refered to as a quarter. The astrological system elucidates four primary phases of the Moon, each of these phases referred ...

There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon, followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent.