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A new analysis of material brought back from the far side of the Moon by China's Chang'e-6 mission has found evidence that ...

FILE - This China National Space Administration (CNSA) handout image released by Xinhua News Agency, shows the lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it landed on ...

As they fly around the moon, the four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II will see views never seen by the human eye. Here's how.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...

Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in important elements and water. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see from Earth might be drier than the near side. By Katrina Miller Katrina ...

A small uncrewed spacecraft is buzzing the moon, with under two weeks remaining before its bold attempt to land on the lunar surface. But the real treat was the footage beamed back to mission control ...

There is a signal, born in the earliest days of the cosmos. It’s weak. It’s faint. It can barely register on even the most sensitive of instruments. But it contains a wealth of information about the ...

New York — Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought ...