27 at 7:45 p.m. EDT (00:45 on Feb. 28). 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 ...

2025—the Earth is precisely between the sun and a full moon. The Earth projects its shadow onto the lunar surface, and the only sunlight that gets to the lunar surface is filtered by Earth’s ...