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

Scientists have long noted differences between the lunar near side and far side. While the near side periodically passes ...

Originally planned as a low-earth orbit Lunar Module/Command ... Apollo 8's successful mission paved the way for Apollo 11 to fulfill U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon ...

Command module pilot Jack Swigert uttered the famous words to Mission Control Center which have often been misquoted.

Moon is slowly moving away from Earth at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This gradual drift affects Earth’s rotation and ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, ...

The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ingenuity and the will to survive. Three NASA ...

The patchwork blankets depict astronauts, rockets, capsules and bootprints, as well as — perhaps surprisingly — a few ...

Only the giant impact explains what we see in moon and Earth samples today. Samples brought back from Apollo missions and lunar meteorites reveal striking similarities between Earth and the moon.