The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big ... The photographs and films that the crew of Apollo 8 took of the moon gave scientists valuable information and helped NASA plan future landing ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Getting from Earth to space isn’t just about speed—it’s about planning the right trajectory. The Moon, our closest neighbor, ...

The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...

Read some insider stories from the Apollo 8 mission to the moon ... "The one nice thing about being on earth if someone gets sick, it lands on the floor. In 0-G [zero gravity], it floats ...

The Atlas-Agena rocket first placed the spacecraft into Earth orbit before ... and indeed Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of the Ranger 8 impact site in July 1969. Schematic diagram of the ...