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 ...

Michigan's Moon Tree, a sycamore at Fernwood Botanical Garden in Niles, is the last of four that were planted in the state in 1976. The seeds, along with about 2,000 others, traveled to the moon ...

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 ...

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.

There are seven different tree species of Moon Trees. The tradition started in 1971 when Stuart Roosa, an astronaut, took seeds on the Apollo 14 mission, Dracut Public Schools Superintendent ...

"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 ...