After traveling a record distance from Earth, the Artemis II crew saw incredible things. “This continues to be unreal,” pilot Victor Glover said.

Exactly when and how plate tectonics started, however, is a matter of debate. Now, in a study published March 19 in the journal Science, rock samples from Western Australia hint that the Earth’s crust may have been moving as early as 3.48 billion years ago, roughly one billion years after our planet formed.

The global climate has changed drastically over the course of the 58 years that separate these two ‘Earthrise’ photographs.

Part of Artemis II's mission includes collecting samples of ice from the moon that will be compared to Earth’s oceans.

Deep below the surface of Murujuga, soil expands and contracts from the passage of water. Each wetting cycle is like a sodden breath from lungs holding fragments of stone and shell. Stone artifacts from millennia of Aboriginal life are pushed up slowly,

NASA released the very first images taken by the four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule as they are making their way to the moon.

Over the past few days, an astronomical piece of space news has been circulating around the internet: NASA purportedly confirmed that Earth has acquired a second moon that will stay with us until 2083. As exciting as that idea is, it unfortunately isn’t ...