Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

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, 8 by 19 by 11.7 inches—perfect for ...

This is a vintage oversize photograph from July 1969 of Earth taken by the Apollo 11 crew during the Apollo 11 trans-lunar coast. NASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is an ...

As the Apollo 11 mission began its descent toward the lunar surface, astronaut Neil Armstrong’s heart pumped at a mere 75 ...

An 18-karat gold version of the first watch worn on the moon has set a record for the most paid for an astronaut's timepiece.

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 ...

Even if the Prospect Moon mission goes perfectly, it doesn’t mean companies will immediately start mining the moon. It’s like ...

More than 50 years after astronauts from NASA’s Apollo missions left behind 96 bags of human waste on the Moon, the agency is ... It is not feasible to bring waste back to Earth, so the ...

Evan Lorenzen created a 1-centimeter book full of images and text to join a lunar “gallery” that will launch later this year.

NASA’s Ranger impact missions were equipped with cameras that snapped ever-closer pictures of the moon and radioed them back to Earth ... flat landing sites for the Apollo astronauts who were ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

You can also see where astronauts, rovers and landers have ventured with our Apollo landing sites observing guide. You can prepare for the next full moon or eclipse with our guides on how to ...