Carolyn Porco was 13 years old when she experienced her first 'cosmic connection.' She was on a rooftop in the Bronx, of all the unlikely places, peering through a friend's telescope when she caught ...

Apollo 8 was the first mission when astronauts could admire their home planet as a small island of life hanging in the dark ...

NASA, Lunar Orbiter 1. The world's first view of the Earth taken by a spacecraft from the vicinity of the Moon, August 26, ...