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...
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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,...
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.
The Next Humans on the Moon Will Go Where No One Has Gone
Three missions from three programs converge on the lunar south pole in 2026, chasing water ice that could fuel humanity's expansion into space.