The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

See Earth's ancient companion like never before with this gallery of incredible satellite, telescope and lunar orbiter images of the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Since then, the vehicle—equipped with 16 cameras on its exterior and interior—has flown by the lunar surface and captured various stunning images of both the moon and Earth.

Stunning new images of the moon have been beamed back to Earth from the European Space Agency’s Juice mission showing some sign of real colour differences on the lunar surface.

Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first IM-1 mission images to Earth on February 16, 2024. The images were captured shortly after separation from @SpaceX's second stage on ...

But in 2013, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft — short for Mercury Surface, Space, Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging — captured this image of Earth and the moon from 61 million miles away.

Evidence that space travel is real includes photos and videos captured by astronauts, the hundreds of pounds of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the moon now located at the ...