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 ...

And some sky-gazers will be able to glimpse a cosmic magic trick when the moon appears to pass in front of Mars. The full moon will be at peak illumination at 5:27 p.m. ET Monday but will appear ...

The Moon will block Mars for a little more than hour on Monday January 13, 2025. Planetary lunar occultations like this one only happen every few years. On a global scale, lunar occultations aren ...