Light covers 186,000 miles EVERY SECOND (kids, please don't try traveling ... trip travel time for radio waves between the Earth and the Moon. The Sun is 93 million miles away, so sunlight takes ...

If you need equipment for viewing the moon, check out our guide to the best telescopes and the best telescopes for kids ... Earth, is a sphere, and it is always half-illuminated by the sun.

While a solar eclipse involves the moon passing between the sun and the Earth, casting a shadow across our planet, a lunar eclipse involves the Earth passing directly between the moon and the sun.

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.