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 ...
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 moon this year.
In 1959, Russia took the first ever images of the far side of the Moon. The iconic pictures were completely different to the visible side, shocking scientists. This documentary explores the ...
The moon’s far side is impossible to see from Earth because it’s also facing away. The moon is tidally locked to Earth, so it always shows the same familiar face.
BEIJING--China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in northern China ...