Here’s exactly when, where and how to see a beautiful crescent moon grow in the southwestern sky after dark every night this week.

Look to the east in the hours preceding sunrise on Aug. 20 to see a thin crescent moon rendezvous with Venus and Jupiter to form a celestial triangle in the predawn sky. TOP TELESCOPE PICK Review ...

Look to the west-southwest after dark on Thursday, Jan. 22, to see a 17%-lit waxing crescent moon moving close to the ringed ...

For the next few nights, the moon will be a narrow crescentin the western sky after sunset. New moon, when the moon is between the Earth and the sun,was on Nov. 16, and the moon is now moving towards ...

Watch for the day-and-a-half old moon to appear low in the west shortly after sunset tonight. Binoculars will more clearly show the moon's complete outline. Direct sunlight illuminates the crescent.

The faint crescent Moon returns to the western sky after the new Moon on January 19, 2026, providing a chance for early evening observation near the horizon after sunset.

The lunar crescent will disappear below the horizon before midnight on Jan. 22.

Twice-reflected sunlight subtly illuminates the dark limb of the crescent moon just before and after the new moon in a phenomenon called Earthshine, or 'Da Vinci glow'. When you purchase through links ...

On Saturday evening (Oct. 5) as darkness is falling, be sure to take a look low toward the west-southwest part of the sky for a beautiful celestial tableau formed by a lovely crescent moon and the ...

You might already know that roughly a quarter of the world’s population is expected to head into Ramadan this weekend, the Islamic holy month perhaps best known for its followers’ dawn-to-sunset ...

The Moon is currently in its Waning Crescent phase, marking the final stage of the lunar cycle. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, just 2% of the Moon's surface is illuminated as of December ...