The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...

Have you ever wondered why we always see the same side of the Moon, no matter where we are on Earth? While the Moon appears ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

The near side we are so familiar with appears darker in places — the result of the vast ancient lava flows, called lunar mare — while the far side is covered in pock marks and craters but no mare.

However, the far side is pockmarked with craters, and lacks the large lava-filled basins found on the near side. Future Lunar Exploration Why these differences exist has long been a subject of ...

(CNN) — The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the ...

The near side of the moon has been studied more extensively than the far side. Dinkun Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Scientists analyzed the first and thus far only rock samples from the ...

Scientists will also be able to compare the ages of these far-side rocks with rocks from volcanic eruptions on the near side that took place about 3.9 to 3.2 billion years ago.

The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co ...

Chang’e-6, the first mission to bring back soil from the moon’s far side, collected 1.9 kilograms (4.2 pounds) of lunar soil via a robotic probe in June before returning to Earth, a scientific ...

The Chang'e-4 spacecraft became the first to visit the moon's far side in 2019. The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava ...