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If you like handling tiny glass shards, sure, go ahead and touch the lunar surface. But avoid the rocks.

Until the Apollo 11 mission, my family didn’t have a television. Then, for one weekend, we joined the rest of Planet Earth.

The Times’s Graphics, Science and Immersive Storytelling teams shine a new light on the iconic photography from the first moonwalk.

They’ve nearly vanished, but hubs in Southern California and on Long Island played key roles in the lunar race.

Something of a new lunar race is underway, but the motivations differ from what put men on its surface 50 years ago.

Conspiracy theories were once deadly serious. On the internet, skepticism about the moon landing shows how the mood has shifted.

The restored room is a museum piece, and yet it is alive, as though engineers stepped out briefly but would be right back.