Moon phase today: Waxing Gibbous lights up 91% on May 29

On the eve of May 2026's second Full Moon, Earth's ancient companion hangs at 91 percent illumination — a threshold moment in the lunar cycle when the Moon is bright enough to cast shadows on the ground yet still angled to reveal the mountains, craters, and plains that mark its long history. The Waxing Gibbous phase has always invited this kind of attention: not quite complete, still becoming, offering the patient observer a surface alive with texture and depth. In two nights it will be full, and the geometry of Sun, Moon, and Earth will briefly align into that familiar, luminous circle. For n