Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the ...

More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new generation. “Earthrise,” taken by the Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, 1968, at a ...

"Bill Anders forever changed our perspective of our planet and ourselves with his famous Earthrise photo on Apollo 8," Kelly wrote on X. "My thoughts are with his family and friends." ...

The colour photograph of Earthrise - taken by Apollo 8 astronaut, William A. Anders, December 24, 1968. Although the photograph is usually mounted with the moon below the earth, this is how Anders ...

The only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon, taken by Buzz Aldrin, and other historic space photographs are headed to ...

His Apollo 8 crew, accompanied by James Lovell and William A. Anders, captured the legendary "Earthrise" photo while orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968. (Anders snapped the actual photo.) ...

Now 55 years old, the former NASA astronaut’s outlook on space travel mirrors fellow former astronaut William Anders, who shot the famous Earthrise photograph of our planet on the Apollo 8 mission.

The first ever photograph taken of an Earthrise | Credit: Bonhams Astronaut William Anders took the black-and-white shot during the Apollo 8 mission on Christmas Eve in December 1968.

Apollo 15: Astronaut James B ... a phenomenon which occurs during a total solar eclipse. 'Earthrise': A unique view of Earth recently captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) from ...