Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...

The exact moment of the new moon, when Earth, the sun and the moon are perfectly aligned, occurs on March 29, at 5:58 a.m. EDT (1058 UTC), in New York, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory.