The closer they came on their return journey, the more the Earth loomed. In a striking image taken by Apollo 17, almost the entirety of Africa is visible, with the southern portion of the ...

(AP Photo/John Raoux) 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.

It is important to note that while it has been termed as a Near-Earth Asteroid due to its close distance of passing, it is not expected to actually impact the planet. It belongs to the Apollo ...

The space race to the Moon began on 4 October 1957 when the Soviet Union sent the first artificial satellite into orbit around Earth ... Then, after Apollo 17 had surged upward like a fiery ...

Adventurers and scientists. Aviators and engineers. Dreamers and doers. Becoming an astronaut requires a rare combination of intellectual capacity and physical skill — plus a heaping helping of ...

The BBC's James Burke takes a look inside the Apollo Command Module Having left Earth, Apollo performed a mid-flight turn to dock with the Lunar Module, which was carried into space behind the ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

2025," according to NASA, with the crew becoming the second ever to travel beyond low Earth orbit, and the first since Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis III will return humans to the lunar surface for ...

According to NASA, the International Space Station orbits at approximately 250 miles above the Earth, and the furthest humans have ventured since Apollo 17 had been to the Hubble Space Telescope ...