The next full moon is Saturday, Aug. 9, and is sometimes called the Sturgeon Moon. It gets that name from when "The Great Lakes and Lake Champlain sturgeon were said to be most readily caught," per the Old Farmer's Almanac.

Tuesday, May 23: 17%-illuminated waxing crescent moon close to Venus Da Vinci glow is best seen with either the unaided eye or using any pair of stargazing binoculars or a good small telescope .

Stargazers in the U.S. will find the slender form of the crescent moon roughly 20 degrees above the western horizon right at sunset on Saturday. The following hour will see Mars and the bright star Regulus line up to the upper left of the lunar disk, becoming visible as dusk gives way to the coming night.

NASA's Artemis 1 mission's Orion spacecraft captured amazing views of the Earthset as the moon passed in front of it on flight day 6. On flight day 8, the spacecraft captured a view of itself with the crescent moon.

The crescent moon will be the centerpiece of April's final astronomical event as it bunches up with Venus, Saturn and Mercury in the eastern sky on Friday morning. ... Science News // 4 hours ago.

The crescent moon will be just 17% illuminated as it wanes toward becoming a new moon on April 20. That's a great time to see "Earthshine" on the dark limb of the moon.

Skywatchers could receive a bit of cosmic positivity if they look up shortly before dawn on April 25. At around 5:30 AM EST, Venus, Saturn, and the moon will briefly align during a rare triple ...

Live Science says both planets will be visible. What will the lunar phase be on Friday? The moon is in its waning crescent phase, at 7% illumination on April 25, according to lunar website Moon Giant.