What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 27, 2025, the moon is 28 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 3% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The final full moon of 2023 and the first of winter, it also reached higher into the night sky than any other. The full moon is the lunar phase when the moon appears fully illuminated by the sun ...

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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The 12th full Moon of 2023—the “Beaver Moon”—will grace the early evening skies as it rises in the east just as the sun ...

The next full moon will be on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 8:53 a.m. EDT (1353 GMT) but local moonrise times vary depending on location. The moon will ...