When you see the moon rising or setting over the landscape, it seems so...  ...n the sky, it seems so much smaller! Why does the moon look so huge on the horizon? The moon stays the same, but your brain experiences an opt...

Why The Moon Hates The Beach T-Shirt - $14.95Let's see if you...  ...ou get the humor in this sweet cartoon of Why The Moon Hates The Beach by Mark Heath.More T-Shirts by Ma...

If you love science cartoons, you'll love Mark Heath's No Brow Cartoons! Mark, who also drew the nationally syndicated Spot the Frog comic strip till 2008, is kind enough to allow us to adapt his awesome cartoons into T-...

The crater shown was created in 1970 by the Apollo...  ...crater shown was created in 1970 by the Apollo 13 moon mission. Wait -you remember Apollo 13 {wiki}, don...  ...age of the Saturn V rocket and sent it toward the moon 's surface. Forty years later, this is considered...

Last night's full moon was the biggest one of the year (by 14%) and also...  ...d also the brightest (by an impressive 30%). The Moon 's remarkable luminosity sprung from its proximity...  ...50,000 km closer to Earth than other full Moons of the year. This...

On December 31st, we will see the second full moon of the month, or the 13th full moon of the year. These rare occasions are called a bl...  ...the year. These rare occasions are called a blue moon , as in "once in a blue moon ". But that's...

Photo: brian s huff [Flickr]Did you see the ring a...  ...an s huff [Flickr]Did you see the ring around the moon last night? If you did and wondered what caused i...  ...ough it looked ominous, the shiny ring around the moon last night was actually a rather common weather p...  ...lated blogs across the Buzz, th...

The History Bluff (motto: "Making a mess of...  ...ad news that the first monkey to ever walk on the moon has passed away. On June 3, 1981 Harlan the Monk...  ...nkey became the first primate to ever walk on the moon . Harlan died on November 18, 2009 of an apparent...

So. Yesterday, we heard that the Pope's astronomer...  ...said that it discovered significant water on the Moon . "The discovery opens a new chapter in our u...  ...y opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon ," the space agency said in a written stateme...  ...winds, comets, giant molecular...

It has long been suspected that there are undergro...  ...there are underground tunnels and caverns on the moon , presumably the residua of lava tubes.  Now a gr...