A trailblazing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum explores our fascination with the moon, from the first time Galileo trained his telescope on it to the present. John William Draper’s 1840 ...

When John Glenn navigated the Mercury-Atlas 6 into orbit, becoming the first American to pilot a spacecraft around Earth, his payload included a point-and-shoot camera he picked up at a drugstore in ...

Some 400 years of depictions of the Moon, particularly via photography, are going on display at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Some 400 ...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Apollo's Muse honors the rich history of photographic representations of the moon, from rarely seen early daguerreotypes to contemporary ...

Over the centuries, whenever painters have needed to represent the moon—to signify nighttime or evoke a romantic aura—all they had to do was brush a circle or crescent in the upper half of the picture ...