The statistics, the theories, the myths and the evidence — every claim about our nearest world, told properly and tested honestly. You decide.
BeginOn December 14, 1972, Gene Cernan climbed the ladder of the lunar module Challenger and nobody has stood on the Moon since. That was—
Six hundred million people watched Apollo 11 through a television set. Twelve men felt the surface crunch under their boots. For everyone else who has ever lived, the Moon landing is something we were shown — and in that gap between the event and the evidence, half a century of questions has flourished.
This site takes those questions seriously. Every theory is told in its strongest form, the way its best advocates tell it. Every piece of mainstream evidence gets its say. Every claim ends with an honest verdict. And where science itself is still arguing — and it is, more often than you'd think — we say so.
Where did it come from? Science's honest answer involves a vanished planet named Theia, a doughnut of vaporised rock, and a collision whose ghost may still be buried beneath your feet. No conspiracy required.
Read the science →Moon goddesses and moon rabbits, lunacy laws and werewolf films, coral spawning by moonlight and the truth about full-moon madness. What the Moon does to us — and what we only imagine it does.
Enter the folklore →