Tiny glass beads formed in the fires of explosive volcanic eruptions on the moon, and brought back to Earth by Apollo 17, ...

The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) final lunar ...

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the ...

Apollo 17, left, blasting off from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 7, 1972, and Artemis I lifting off from Launchpad 39B on Nov. 16.

With advancement of space tech, photographs clicked from space over the years illuminate distant worlds in stunning detail.

The present image, a view of Earth from Taurus-Litrow, is one of the very few Apollo photographs showing the Earth from the surface of the Moon, as seen by humans, in an extraordinary reversal of ...

On Dec. 14, 50 years ago, two men woke up on humanity’s last day on the moon.Nobody would be back to the moon anytime soon. Plans for additional Apollo missions had been scrapped two years ...

Four people are about to embark on a journey that will take them farther from Earth than anyone has traveled since 1972 when Apollo 17 astronauts landed on the moon.

AS17-152-23272 (7-19 Dec. 1972) --- The crescent Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this photograph taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit during National Aeronautics and Space ...

Embark on a fascinating exploration of the Moon’s most mysterious and unusual surface formations using rare high-resolution images captured during the historic Apollo 17 mission in 1972. These ...