I knew what I was actually seeing: the moon illusion. Anyone who has seen the moon (or the sun) near the horizon has experienced this effect. The moon looks enormous there, far larger than it does ...

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by. The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights ...

Countless shadowed craters line the terminator all the way down to the moon's southern pole, while the 54-mile-wide (87 km) ...

See the Moon near some of the brightest planets this month, and be on the lookout for some of the rarest meteors to spot.

May 30 presents a perfect opportunity to spot Mare Crisium — a dark Nevada-sized patch — etched into the delicate curve of ...

Basically, it says that the Moon looks bigger near the horizon because of the way the brain misinterprets the sizes of objects when they share the same field of view. When the Moon is close to the ...

Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...

According to EarthSky writer Deborah Boyd, it's the close location to the horizon that gives the Hunter's Moon its warm colour. "The orange colour of a moon near the horizon is a true physical ...

According to NASA, it’s true that most stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere will be able to see Venus, Saturn and the waning crescent moon near the horizon about 30 minutes before sunrise.

If you’re in New Jersey (and searching the skies for the notorious drones) you may have been distracted by the moon hanging unusually low and glowing golden near the horizon. And though it’s ...

The last time the full moon was this low was 18.6 years ago, in what's known as a major lunar standstill. It won't happen ...

According to EarthSky writer Deborah Boyd, it's the close location to the horizon that gives the Hunter's Moon its warm colour. "The orange colour of a moon near the horizon is a true physical ...