On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

The first full moon of 2025 will pass in front of Mars, creating an event that will ... moon looks bigger as there is something to give it scale (its angular size is actually unchanged).

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons ... it is all relative. Earth's moon orbits at an average distance of 384,400km (238,855 miles), but the scale of the impact that ultimately ...

An opportunity to see the moon occult a bright planet at night does not happen too often; for Mars, a specific location on Earth can see it happen (on average) once about every 14 years.

Next year's first astral spectacle comes early, on Jan. 3, when the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks. Considered one of the most impressive annual meteor showers to witness, the event can produce ...