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

Observing this distant epoch is notoriously difficult, astronomers say. At that time, the universe was filled with a dense ...

A series of recent findings from the Chang’e-6 mission have significantly advanced our understanding of the Moon’s far 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 moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

The far side of the moon, which we can never see from our vantage point on Earth, looks surprisingly different than the orb we're used to seeing in the night sky. The near side we are so familiar ...

New research shows that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, mirroring activity on the near side.

Lunar samples from the Chang'e-6 mission could help explain differences between the near and far side of the moon.

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 ...

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 ...

“That said, the increase of the shear modulus of 2 to 3 percent on the near vs. far side of the Moon is an intriguing, if not entirely surprising, finding,” Schmerr says.