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You can probably conjure this vision of the moon—hold the image in your mind and transmit it off this planet and onto our shining opalescent companion. Peaks in the sun? I’ve seen that. This week, we ...

The last time human beings took pictures in the vicinity of the moon the world was an awfully analog place. Apollo astronauts would hand carry cameras into space and hand deliver them back to Earth, ...

NASA unveiled the first-ever photo of Earth from the far side of the moon after a flyby Tuesday, taken by the Artemis II astronauts that President Donald Trump hailed in a phone call as "modern-day ...

The Artemis II astronauts are now forever intertwined with Apollo 8. A day after the historic lunar flyaround, NASA on Tuesday released striking new photos taken by the crew. The four astronauts ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission, carrying four astronauts on an out-of-this-world journey, flew around the Moon on Monday. The crew members took turns describing the stunning landscape below and captured ...

(NEXSTAR) – With Artemis II’s historic mission to the moon capturing the nation’s attention, some may be wondering why the far side of the moon remains hidden from view – even as it rotates. Also ...

Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds.” When Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and ...

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, humans have visited the moon. On 6 April, the four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew around the far side of the moon, taking them the furthest ...

Artemis II began its historic flyby of the moon Monday in the mission’s showstopper event — giving the crew the world’s first glimpses ever of parts of the lunar dark side, which they described as ...

The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds. For half a century humans thought they understood the moon: a static, ...

Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side. By Andrea Kannapell “The dark side of the moon”: The term has a poetic ring. It has long been mined in popular culture, not least by ...