Why does the Moon look so large sometimes? It's been a question for more than 1,000 years and may have something to do with context.

April's 'pink' full moon happens this week, but don't expect a Barbie pink glow to it. Here's why we call it the pink moon.

April's 'pink' full moon happens this week, but don't expect a Barbie pink glow to it. Here's why we call it the pink moon.

For the past few nights the moon has appeared larger than many people have seen it for almost 20 years. It is the world's largest optical illusion, and one of its most enduring mysteries. It can put a ...

Brian Cox uses the BBC archive to examine the story of man's relationship with the moon.

Imagine it’s a clear night and the moon is just peeking over the horizon. The moon looks “bigger” than it does high up in the sky. This week’s Sunday Science Tidbit is going… ...

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Astronomers said the Sun and the Moon cannot appear brightly side by side on the horizon, contrary to social media posts that claimed the phenomenon was seen in Thailand in February 2025. They ...

Incredible footage filmed by a Russian cosmonaut on the International Space Station shows the Moon appear to deflate when it disappears behind the horizon. This incredible cosmic phenomenon, known ...

The “pink full moon” will rise across U.S. skies this weekend ahead of a meteor shower capable of creating “bolts of blue.” ...

Surveillance system would have covered all of Earth. — -- The United States military once planned to build a surveillance station on the moon. Code named "Project Horizon," a declassified ...

Despite what it may look like, the Earth does not in fact rise over the moon's horizon. The same face of the moon always looks upon Earth, and for an observer on the moon, the Earth would appear ...