Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL Mission

Deep in the craters of the Moon's south pole lurk permanently shadowed regions: areas that have not seen sunlight in over two billion years.

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

Converting stereo images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter into 3D maps of the Moon's surface.

Astronaut John Young, who walked on the Moon during Apollo 16 and commanded the first space shuttle mission, has passed away at the age of 87.

Apollo 12 astronauts relax during a flight rehearsal in the Apollo mission simulator.

Ranger 8 camera B image of the Moon about 5 seconds before impact.

Astronaut John W. Young, commander of Apollo 16, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag.

Includes the early problem of docking the Command and Lunar Modules, landing on the Moon, experiments package, climb up Cone Crater, onboard experiments, scenes in the NASA JSC's Lunar Receivin...

LRO: Apollo 17 Landing Site Lithograph

Apollo 17's Gene Cernan drives the lunar roving vehicle during the early part of the first moonwalk at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The Lunar Module is in the background.

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.

Featured are the standup EVA, the three traverses of the lunar surface, film taken from the Lunar Rover, hammer and feather test of Galileo's theory on falling objects in gravity fields, Worden...

The rising Earth above the lunar horizon as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft.

The phase and libration of the Moon for 2017, at hourly intervals. 

Photomosaic of lunar panorama near the Tycho crater taken by Surveyor 7. The hills on the center horizon are about eight miles away from the spacecraft.

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

What's Up for October? Celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with your local astronomy club.

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

At the end of the last Apollo 15 moon walk, Commander David Scott (pictured above) performed a live demonstration for the television cameras.

The Moon from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Topography of Earth's moon generated from data collected by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter, aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, with the gravity anomalies bordering the Procellar...

Katherine Johnson and other "Human Computers" played an integral role in the early days of America's space program.

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module Columbia.

Astronaut Richard F. Gordon, Apollo 12 command module pilot, participates in simulation training at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) acquired a high resolution image of the Apollo 11 landing site.