As of Monday, July 28, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent. There's still not much to see tonight, with only 9% of the surface visible to us on Earth (according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation ).

Today, July 26, 2025, the moon is 2 days old and is in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 4% illuminated.

Step out this evening around 8 p.m. local daylight time to spot a close grouping of the thin crescent Moon and Mars.

The sturgeon moon is set to light up Michigan skies in early August 2025, as the Perseid meteor shower peaks. Here's what to know.

The crescent moon will be visible 20 degrees above the western horizon at sunset on July 28, with Mars appearing as a bright point of light roughly four degrees to its upper right. Both Mars and the stars of the nearby constellation Virgo will grow more prominent as the glow of the setting sun gives way to the coming night.

Earth has been cleared of an impact with the recently discovered asteroid 2024 YR4, but there are still risks to the planet and future space missions, like the Artemis program, if the 200-foot-wide meteor were to hit the moon.

The daily horoscope for Tuesday, July 29, 2025, comes with a Libra Moon speaking to Neptune in the zodiac sign of Aries. Libra wants peace and shared understanding. Neptune in Aries doesn’t care about appearances. It stirs up a wild longing for personal truth, even if it disrupts the social balance.

Following Saturn is Venus, rising in New York at 2:51 a.m. on July 25. Venus is in Taurus, and so bright that it is immediately identifiable; it will look like the brightest "star" in the sky. By about 4:30 a.m. it is prominent in the east-northeast, though still low in the sky at about 17 degrees in altitude.