Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

NASA, Lunar Orbiter 1. The world's first view of the Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon, August 26, ...

The Moon has always influenced life on Earth, from tides to ancient calendars. But in the 2030s, a well-documented 19-year ...

One of the most enduring and powerful images from America's space program. Earthrise was taken on Christmas eve in 1968 by Astronaut William Anders, Lunar Module Pilot. It is a vintage print in suberb ...

Houston-based Lunar Resources extracted oxygen from simulated moon soil in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde Orbit in the Earth-moon region of space, laying a foundation for the ...

The full moon has been a source of fascination, from precipitating werewolf transformations to controlling the tides. Across the globe, it has been an important part of cultural and spiritual ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, April 17, 2025, the moon is 19 days old and is in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar ...

Apollo Lunar Sample Container No. 1008, triple-sealed, in which the Apollo 12 astronauts transported invaluable samples of moon back to Earth. Cade Martin It’s only the size of a suitcase ...