As of Friday, Dec. 5, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. This means 99% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.

A strawberry moon appeared during the month of June while the buck moon graced the night skies in July. In August, the sturgeon moon. Why is it called a sturgeon moon? According to the space and astronomy section of the Royal Museums Greenwich, North ...

I love to go for a walk with my dog. Sometimes we see the moon in the sky–even though it’s daytime. I asked my friend Michael Allen why that happens. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me that we have to ask “What is a day?”