The first humans to catch a glimpse of the Earth rising over the moon nearly missed seeing it at all, let alone capturing the snapshot that became one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century.

Humanity's first look at Earth from the moon didn't come until Aug. 23, 1966, when this grainy, black-and-white image showed our planet as a crescent above the lunar horizon, appearing to rise as the ...

Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation. “Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968, at a distance of ...

The year 1968 was by any measure a bad one for America. Two of our nation's leaders were assassinated—Senator Robert Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Following King's murder, riots swept ...

And here came "Earthrise": a photo at once perfect and humanly imperfect - the tilted horizon, Earth slightly off-center, a rare moment of imprecision during a mission that relied on exact ...

A lunar crater, immortalized in one of the most famous photos ever taken, is playing a key role in the search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Known for its prominent appearance in the ...

Have you ever wondered what the Earth looks like from the Moon? Or what the Earth and Moon looks like through the rigs of Saturn, or billions of miles away from the edge of the Solar System? Well, now ...

The iconic photo taken on Christmas Eve 1968 "came about by accident," says space writer and historian Andrew Chaikin. A new NASA animation shows... On Anniversary Of Apollo 8, How The 'Earthrise' ...