Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL Mission

The first image taken by the Ranger 8 camera B on 20 February 1965 shows the 164 km diameter Ptolemaeus crater, top center, and below it Alphonsus crater (diameter 108 km).

A simple visualization of Moon orbiting Earth in a view from the north ecliptic pole.

Records the accomplishment of the basic mission of Apollo 10 - to uncover and solve the few remaining problems before lunar landing.

Lunar Orbiter 1 new of the Moon and crescent Earth. This is the first good image of the Earth taken from the vicinity of the Moon, 380,000 km away.

Ranger 8 image of the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquillity) area of the Moon taken from 511 km about 4 minutes before surface impact.

Close-up view of the plaque which the Apollo 11 astronauts left on the Moon in commemoration of the historic lunar landing mission. 

NASA created this chart in 1967 to illustrate the flight path and key mission events for the upcoming Apollo missions to the Moon.

This video explains how our moon creates a solar eclipse.

To celebrate its 5th Anniversary, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission decided to hold a contest to pick a cover image for "The Moon As Art" collection.

Mark your calendars: a series of three supermoons will appear on the celestial stage on Dec. 3, 2017, Jan. 1, 2018, and Jan. 31, 2018.

The Moon orbits the Earth in the months prior to the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.  

Footage of the recovery of the Apollo 8 crew

A lunar boulder studied by Apollo 14 astronauts.

Man's second journey to the Moon is for science. The first EVA includes setting up Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) for the return of scientific data. The second EVA includes a geol...

Apollo 16 was the fifth moon landing of Project Apollo, and the 10th manned mission in the Apollo program. It was the second mission to utilize a Lunar Rover (Lunar Roving Vehicle, LRV) during luna...

A view from Apollo 13 of the lunar farside showing the crater Tsiolkovsky.

A mosaic of images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter centered on the Moon's Orientale basin. 

Silent video of the Apollo 8 Saturn V rocket launching into orbit

The far side of Earth's Moon.

A full moon rising over Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on September 16th 2016

The near side of Earth's Moon, as seen based on data from cameras aboard NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft.

A recording of the Apollo 8 astronauts reading from the book of Genesis.

A view of the Apollo 11 lunar module "Eagle" as it returned from the surface of the Moon to dock with the command module "Columbia".

Global map of crustal thickness of the moon derived from gravity data obtained by NASA's GRAIL spacecraft.

The three crew members of Apollo 8 were the first humans to leave Earth orbit and the first to travel around the Moon.