Native Americans had dice and games of probability 12,000 years ago, according to a new study. That’s far earlier than the practice is thought to have existed anywhere in the Old World.

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth in one of the capsule’s windows. As of midmorning Friday, Wiseman and his crew were 90,000 miles (145,000 kilometers) from Earth and were quickly gaining on the moon with another 168,000 miles (270,000 kilometers) to go.

The former MTV trailblazer is defining aging on her own terms, tuning out online critics and savoring late-in-life love with Richard Marx.