The far side of the Moon has turned out to be far stranger than many planetary scientists expected, and the latest surprise is hiding in the dust under a Chinese rover’s wheels. Instead of behaving ...

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the far side reveal. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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 far ...

An infrared image of the far side of the moon and distant Earth, captured by Tiandu-2, which launched with Queqiao-2 in March 2024. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — The Queqiao-2 satellite has completed ...

When the Chang’e-4 mission landed in the Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, China became the first and only country to land on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth.

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Sept. 30 (UPI) --A new study published Tuesday suggested that the moon's far side of the moon may be colder than the near side. The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, found that rock ...

The radio silence on the Moon's far side, ideal for detecting signals from the ancient universe, is increasingly under threat to the dismay of astronomers. Reading time 3 minutes In the current era of ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new analysis of rock samples co-led by a UCL (University College London) and Peking ...