That’s why we can see the full face of the Moon reflecting sunlight. As the Earth rotates, the Moon rises just as the Sun sets, but just on that one day of the month. In the days before a full …

Two reasons: first, the moon is bright enough to be seen above the blue/white hue of the sky. Second, the duration for which it is above the horizon of Earth coincides with the sun, making …

The daytime moon is visible almost every day of the month, except those closest to the full moon and the new moon. Here's why the moon and sun often share the daytime sky.

Near the full moon phase, our closest celestial neighbor is only visible at night because it rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. So near the new moon phase, it’s up in the sky, but we can’t see it …

When the moon is close to the ‘new moon’ cycle it is too close to the sun for us to see during the day and when it is nearing the ‘full moon’ cycle, it only becomes visible during the night.

But because the moon is also doing a lap around the Earth, the moon is going to appear at different points in the sky at different times of the day and night. So sometimes the moon will …

At the time of writing, the moon is visible during the day. How can that be? Last weekend was the “Hunter’s Moon” and yet this week, if you look to the west in the morning, a big moon is...

The moon is visible in daylight nearly every day, the exceptions being close to new moon, when the moon is too close to the sun to be visible, and close to full moon when it is only visible at...

By definition, night is the time when our side of the Earth is facing away from the Sun. That explains why we can’t see the Sun at night. But why do we sometimes see the moon in the …

In actuality, the Moon spends 'almost as much as time in the daytime sky' as it does the night. What changes is how we're able to see it as the Moon has to be in the 'right' part of the sky. …