Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

NASA has a long history of spending big on bold ideas, only to see some of them stall, crash, or get quietly shelved. The ...

Whether Artemis ultimately fulfills its promise of sustained lunar exploration, or is reshaped by politics, budgets and ...

Apollo 8's 1968 Christmas Eve discovery On this day in history: The Apollo 8 crew made a discovery that would change the way we look at the planet Earth forever.

On Christmas Eve 1968, the Earth received a message from astronauts on a mission like no other - the first around the moon. NASA will return in 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

Some time next year Artemis II will blast off and carry a crew of four on a shakedown cruise to the moon. They will not land but will spend 10 days testing the systems needed to return humans to the ...

WATCH: On Christmas Eve 1968, Apollo 8 crewmembers Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders made a live broadcast from orbit around the Moon. Commander Frank Borman closed the broadcast with the ...

The residents of Timber Cove lined their streets with luminarias and then looked to the moon on Christmas Eve of 1968. One of their neighbors, NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, was circling that familiar yet ...

On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo program. It was also the first mission to bring humans to the moon. It lifted ...

(Photo provided) Earthrise by William Anders was shot while in lunar orbit in 1968. Some time next year Artemis II will blast off and carry a crew of four on a shakedown cruise to the moon. They will ...