A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a ...

China’s Chang’e-6 probe has lifted off from the far side of the Moon, starting its journey back towards Earth, state media ...

NASA plans a $2.6B radio telescope on the Moon’s far side to hear signals from the universe’s dawn—shielded from Earth’s ...

Multiple space agencies will send missions to the moon this decade and the next, with plans to establish infrastructure that ...

Who are the six surviving members of humanity's greatest feat of exploration? The mission hopes to bring rocks back to Earth from the far side of the Moon for the first time. A rocket carrying the ...

Researchers have analyzed lunar soil brought back from the dark side of the moon. More Xu Bin, Zhou Xuhui, Xu Wendi/Zhejiang Daily Press Group/VCG via AP He said "To obtain a sample from this area ...

Exploring the Moon’s Mantle and Dark Side The moon’s mantle is the layer between the core and the crust. Most of the mantle used to be liquid magma during the earlier formation of the Earth’s ...

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 ...

For as long as humans have gazed skyward, the moon has been a focus of ... plains and surveying its curious far side. Now, after six decades of exploration, we are once again aiming to send ...

Chang’e-6 is the latest mission in China’s lunar exploration program ... which was used to relay communications from Earth around to the dark side of the Moon. This allowed ground control to keep ...

with previous US and Soviet missions all landing on the near-side. The moon program is part of a growing rivalry with the US — still the leader in space exploration — and other nations ...