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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If the Moon Vanished Tonight, You'd Have Weeks to Live
Image: NASA/Apollo 8/Bill Anders. “Earthrise”: the first photograph of Earth rising above the lunar horizon, taken by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968. The...
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...
Some Craters on the Moon Haven't Seen Sunlight in 4 Billion Years
Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Imagine a place 240,000 miles from where you sit right now. The temperature has dropped to minus 248 degrees Celsius: colder...
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 Dark Seas on the Moon Were Never Seas
Image: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University You do not need a telescope. Step outside on any clear night, look up, and you can see them: dark patches...
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,...