The story behind those mind-bending Artemis II moon images

Updated April 7, 2026, 3:07 p.m. ET The dark side of the moon just got a little bit less mysterious. Artemis II astronauts on their 10-day mission to travel farther away from Earth than anybody has ever before got to see a first-of-its-kind view of the side of the moon we can't see on our home planet. The dark side of the moon is so named because of how mysterious it is, but not because it's actually dark. The dark side, or far side, is never visible to observers on Earth because the amount o