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...
Two Machines Are Still Moving 47 Years After We Let Them Go
Voyager 1 and 2 have been traveling for 47 years and are now in interstellar space. The Golden Record they carry may outlast the Earth...
There May Be Life Beneath the Ice of Europa
Beneath Europa's ice shell lies an ocean with more water than Earth. Europa Clipper is on its way to find out if anything lives there.
Mars Isn't Actually Red — We've Been Seeing It Wrong
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS If you stood on Mars right now, you would not see the planet you think you know. The red marble from your school...
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 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...
Europa Clipper Is Looking for an Ocean Buried Under Ice
Europa Clipper is hunting for an ocean hidden beneath 15 km of ice on Jupiter's moon. 49 flybys to find out if anything is swimming.