This Thursday, skywatchers will be treated to a stunning celestial display as the first full moon of the summer, the Buck Moon, creates a visual phenomenon known as the Moon Illusion. This illusion ...

That tree, which Sailstad visited years earlier, inspired him to apply for a Moon Tree on behalf of Durham Parks and Recreation in 2023, after learning about NASA’s tree program. “It was one ...

The Reach Museum's Pauline Schafer introduced the Artemis tree project during the Richland Parks and Recreation Commission’s ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — This is literally out of this world! Moon trees are in fact the real deal. North Carolina is also home to a few of them. On Jan. 31, 1971, U.S. Astronaut Stuart Roosa orbited ...

Search location by ZIP code ZIP. ... 1971 who was a former U.S. Forest Service smokejumper carried seeds that later were grown into the first generation of Moon Trees, ...

Dedicating the Moon Tree at Monte Sano State Park on Thursday, March 20, 2025 were, from left, Alex Hall, president of the Von Braun Astronomical Society; Marcia Lindstrom, from NASA’s Marshall ...

These moon trees are a nod to the 1971 Apollo 14 mission when astronaut Stuart Roosa brought tree seeds into orbit before bringing them back to earth to be planted around the world.

Seeds of a variety of trees, including the sweetgum planted at the intermediate school, flew around the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis I program in 2022, according to the space agency's website.

That's a loblolly pine gifted by NASA, according to the district, and part of a unique collection grown from seeds that traveled 270,000 miles into the moon’s orbit back in 2022.

"This tree will grow with the kids," said Liz Gibson, who has three children at the school and chaired the NASA Moon Tree ceremony. A La Niña winter is coming. Here’s what that could mean for ...