Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the "Cosmic Dawn" by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient ...

And that makes the far side of the Moon the ideal location for a dark-age-hunting radio telescope, free from human interference and noise. Ideas abound to make this a possibility.

The dark side of the Moon is more lumpy than the near side, and covered in large craters. The biggest is called the South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA Basin), which is 2,500 kilometres in diameter. This is ...

A proposed satellite mission aims to orbit the far side of the Moon to detect faint radio signals from the universe’s cosmic ...

The lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it landed on the moon surface, June 4, 2024. New research confirms that volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far ...

The Chang'e 6 mission brought material from the South Pole – Aitken (SPA) basin - a massive impact crater that hit the far side of the moon 4.2 billion years to 4.3 billion years ago.

However, no one has examined if the far side of the moon has different water quantities, until now. In a new study published in Nature, Hu and his colleagues analyzed a mantle sample brought back by ...