ALT The Worm Moon rises over New Orleans on the evening of March 13, 2025. The full Moon glows against a deep blue sky, framed by dark, out-of-focus tree branches in the foreground. Credit: NASA/Eric Bordelon

ALT Trevor Graff, the Artemis Science Team Hardware and Testing Lead, deploys a mockup of the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) during testing with the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on April 21st, 2025. LEMS is a compact, autonomous, and self-sustaining seismometer suite designed to carry out continuous, long-term, monitoring of the lunar seismic environment at the South Polar region. Photo Credit: NASA/ James Blair

ALT Trevor Graff, the Artemis Science Team Hardware and Testing Lead, deploys a mockup of the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) during testing with the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on April 21st, 2025. LEMS is a compact, autonomous, and self-sustaining seismometer suite designed to carry out continuous, long-term, monitoring of the lunar seismic environment at the South Polar region. Photo Credit: NASA/ James Blair

ALT Trevor Graff, the Artemis Science Team Hardware and Testing Lead, deploys a mockup of the Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) during testing with the Active Response Gravity Offload System (ARGOS) at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on April 21st, 2025. LEMS is a compact, autonomous, and self-sustaining seismometer suite designed to carry out continuous, long-term, monitoring of the lunar seismic environment at the South Polar region. Photo Credit: NASA/ James Blair

ALT On this week’s #HWHAP, NASA astronaut Chris Williams and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson come together to talk human spaceflight, astrophysics, and the wonder of the universe. Credit: NASA

ALT The historic first photograph of Earth taken from the vicinity of the Moon, captured by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 1 on Aug. 23, 1966. In the black-and-white image, a partially illuminated Earth appears above the lunar horizon against the darkness of space. The Moon’s rugged, cratered surface fills the lower half of the frame, with faint vertical scan lines visible across the image. Credit: NASA

ALT The iconic “Earthrise” photograph captured by astronaut Bill Anders during the Apollo 8 mission on Dec. 24, 1968. The Moon’s gray, textured surface stretches across the bottom of the image, while Earth appears small in the distance above the lunar horizon, surrounded by black space. Blue oceans, white cloud patterns and land are visible on the planet. Anders took the photograph from the Apollo 8 spacecraft as the crew traveled in lunar orbit. Credit: NASA

ALT The “Earthset” image captured through a window of the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon on April 6, 2026. A partially illuminated blue-and-white Earth appears behind the Moon’s cratered horizon against the blackness of space. Swirling white clouds are visible across Earth’s sunlit side, while much of the planet is in darkness. In the foreground, the rugged lunar surface stretches across the lower half of the image. Credit: NASA

ALT A crescent Earth (bottom) and faint grey Moon (top left) are seen together in the blackness of space in this image taken by Voyager 1 on September 18, 1977. Credit: NASA/JPL

ALT A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the far side of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth in this image taken in July 2015 from about 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA

ALT A camera aboard Artemis I took this photo of the Earth and the Moon as they appeared on Day 13 of its mission as it reached 268,563 miles away from Earth. The Orion spacecraft appears in the foreground on the left. Credit: NASA

ALT The Artemis II astronauts captured this photo of a crescent Moon (left, foreground) and Earth (right) on April 6 of this year. Seen from behind the Moon, its surface appears in sharp detail in the foreground, while Earth sits much farther away, smaller and softly lit in the background. A faint reflection in the spacecraft window is also visible, subtly overlaying the scene. Though their phases differ, both are shaped by the same sunlight, revealing the geometry of the Sun–Earth–Moon system from deep space. Credit: NASA

ALT A view from low Earth orbit of Earth's horizon and a waxing gibbous moon. The Moon is brown and can be seen in the upper right corner of the photo, and Earth is a dreamy blue haze in the lower half. The background is black space.

ALT An artist’s rendering of conceptual early-phase Moon Base development. The scene shows the uneven lunar surface dotted with astronauts, rovers, rotorcrafts, and other machinery. Earth is visible in the background.