They Watched the Earth Set From the Far Side of the Moon
Four astronauts. 252,756 miles. Ten days. The Artemis II crew returned to the Moon's vicinity for the first time in 54 years, and today they...
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The Moon Isn't Grey — We've Been Seeing It Wrong for 500 Years
The moon looks grey from Earth. It is not. Its surface carries blue titanium seas, green olivine plains, and volcanic orange glass waiting to be...
They Came Home — The First Humans Back From the Moon in 53 Years
Image: NASA/U.S. Navy At 8:07 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, April 10, 2026, four human beings fell out of the sky and into the Pacific...
The 22 Seas of the Moon — None of Them Hold Water
Image: NASA/Artemis II Go outside tonight and look at the Moon. You don’t need a telescope. The dark shapes are right there, pooling across the bright...
Fly the Trajectory That Took Four People Around the Moon
An interactive 3D visualization of the Artemis II free-return trajectory. Scroll through the mission, reach closest approach, and explore what the crew saw from 8,900...
The Moon Has a Sea of Rains — And It's Actually Dried Lava
Image: NASA Step outside tonight and look up. Find the Moon, and find the dark plain that dominates the upper-left quadrant of its face: smooth,...
The Moon at 7,000 Kilometers — What Artemis II Actually Saw
Image: NASA At 7:00 p.m. EDT on April 6, 2026, the Moon was not above the crew of Artemis II. It was beside them, beneath...
Four People Just Broke the Apollo Distance Record Today
Artemis II breaks Apollo 13's distance record and captures a solar eclipse from lunar orbit. Every milestone from the April 2026 mission.
These Are the First Human Photos of the Far Side of the Moon
The first photographs taken by human hands from the far side of the Moon. Artemis II crew shares what no camera has captured before.