Conspiracy news & views from all angles, up-to-the-minute and uncensored
MOSCOW — In October 2015, Russian blogger and space enthusiast Vitaly Yegorov began crowdfunding for an ambitious project. With help from aerospace engineers, he pledged to send a microsatellite to the moon and bring back the clearest images to date of the places where American astronauts landed as …
Read More
Illustration by Golden Cosmos Some people have always believed that the moon landing was a government hoax, and, in the age of the Internet, that conspiracy theory continues to thrive. Andrew Marantz explores the value of skepticism, and the point at which disbelief leads to a totalitarian …
Read More
When humans first walked on the moon 50 years ago, they left footprints, a flag and for some, a trail of doubt. While most Earthlings celebrated humanity’s great feat, a handful of holdouts just raised their eyebrows and whipped up some bizarre theories. The most famous of these conspiracy theories …
Read More
The moon-landing hoax still lives on, more than 50 years after Apollo 11 — the first crewed mission to land on the moon. Phil Plait has mixed feelings about the moon-landing hoax. Plait — known as “The Bad Astronomer” to his many thousands of readers on Syfy — told Space.com he is frustrated that …
Read More
Americans view the 1969 Apollo moon landing as worth the effort and expense, but in the most recent YouGov poll one in five are not at all sure the moon landing ever happened. Skepticism is greater among those who weren’t alive to watch the landing themselves, and younger adults (as well as …
Read More
A film expert explains why those conspiracy theories about TV studios and Stanley Kubrick are fake news By Howard Berry, University of Hertfordshire It’s been half a century since the magnificent Apollo 11 moon landing, yet many people still don’t believe it actually happened. Conspiracy theories …
Read More
From Florida to Texas to California and lots of places in between, people from secretaries to rocket scientists worked to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to put Americans on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Mission accomplished came on July 20, 1969, with a massive worldwide audience …
Read More
USA TODAY first published this story in July 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. July 20, 2020, marks 51 years since the moon landing. You know the photo: Buzz Aldrin, standing on the moon and saluting the American flag. Zoom in. What’s really in the image? Why is the flag waving? …
Read More
In the video above, filmmaker SG Collins explains why the Apollo moon landings on the moon in the late 1960s and early ’70s couldn’t have been faked. He’s talking about it from a filmmaker’s point of view, so he doesn’t try to debunk the many arguments conspiracy theorists have put forth to “prove” …
Read More
Rocks collected from the moon 50 years ago and analysed by an international team of scientists, including from The Australian National University (ANU), dispel any notion that the lunar landing was faked, an ANU expert says. ANU scientist Professor Trevor Ireland, who is a space rock expert, said …
Read More