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

Nostalgic cartoon fans rejoice! After a quarter-century hiatus, reclusive cartoonist Gary Larson has returned to penning his hilarious “The Far Side” series with three new digitally-drawn ...

In fact, observations have shown that only about 1% of the moon's far side is covered with maria, or craters caused by volcanic activity on the moon. This sharply contrasts the object's near side ...

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 Sun shining on the far side of the Moon was picked up by the photocell on the upper end of the spacecraft, which started the photography sequence. The first image was taken 39,457 miles from ...

The moon itself blocks communication between mission controllers on Earth and the far side. But in 2018, China put a communication relay satellite in space about 40,000 miles beyond the moon that ...

The far side of the moon is foreverhidden from the nakedeye on Earth, but now scientists have developed a simple way todescribe how itlooks, and in doing so could shed light on its enigmatic ...

Rejoice, cartoon fans. The Far Side is no longer quite so far out of reach.. Though he’s previously resisted efforts to have his beloved comic strip — famed for its deadpan humor and ...

The age of the far side samples indicate that region of the moon had volcanic activity 4.2 billion years ago and 2.8 billion years ago—and during the period in between.

The far side of the moon looks very different from the near side, and with the Chang'e 6 mission, scientists are hoping to learn why. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

Humankind first laid eyes on the far side of the moon in 1968. “The backside looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time,” the astronaut Bill Anders told NASA mission ...