A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

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 ...

For the first time in history, a space mission has touched down on the far side of the moon. China's Chang'e-4 probe landed in the the oldest and deepest basin on the moon's surface. Making the ...

Recordings have recently surfaced of strange sounds the crew heard while on the far side of the moon. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook. More from Science In May of 1969, NASA astronauts Thomas ...

Blue Ghost beamed home gorgeous, up-close shots of the moon's far side on Feb. 24, just after lowering its orbit ahead of a Sunday morning (March 2) landing attempt. "That feeling you get when you ...

They did so first by identifying 266 previously unknown ridges on the far side of the Moon, using advanced mapping and modeling techniques. In order to estimate the ridges' ages, the team then ...

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 astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...

The mission, which unfolded back in 2024, was the second lunar sample return effort by the CNSA, but the first one in the history of the world to snatch bits from the far side of the Moon.

China in 2020 returned samples from the moon’s near side, the first time anyone had done so since the former Soviet Union in 1976. Analysis of the samples found they contained water in tiny ...