At the moment in Scotland, the moon is incredibly bright at night, much more so than it is usually, even during a usual full moon.  Why is this?

I assume that the brightness of the moon is based on the angle of the earth, moon and sun, but if so then what is the critical angles to get the brightest moon possible?  When will this next occur?

I just watch a documentary about the nature of reality (horizon) there seems to be allot of excitement about the Higgs boson that apparently holds the key to mass. however I think I read somewhere that as a you approach the speed of light you gain mass and I'm sure iv read about mass being gained because of energy. does this no suggest that there is no such thing as mass and in fact mass does not exist and is just a measure of energy?

Why 'on earth' do we see only one side of the moon ?

I finished reading a science fiction book series, and it was based on mars, where they were developing carbon dioxide generators to realase the gas into the air to create a thicker and sutainable enviroment to go out onto the surface without a space suit. Is this/ could this be theoretically possible?

I am currently reading Shattering the Myths of Darwinism By Richard Milton, any thoughts on his theories,especially his thoughts on radiometric methods of dating.

http://www.sedin.org/propeng/shatter.htm

is it necessary that the "aliens" or "ET" we are looking for necessarily carry the same body functions like we do? we are carbon based maybe they could be something entirely different. (question  comes coz in a newspaper article i read that we should be  looking for "earth like planets".)

We very often read that the Universe has more stars than there are grains of sand on Earth.  Is this quantitatively demonstrable or mere hyperbole?

If we are hit by a CME what may happen? Also, can we predict them and how? What can we do to protect ourselves?

Why is it that sometimes when i let my dog out into the back garden on an evening the plough star constellation is up at my left and other nights it can be seen to my right yet the north star is always in the same position both times

I heard recently that the star Betelgeuse is predicticted to approach supernova within the next million, or possibly just 1000 years. Am I right in thinking we wont' actually see this until 640 years after it has happened? I know it will be visible but will there be any effects on the Earth? Just need to satisfy my curiosity and hope it happens in my lifetime!