The dark side of the moon is no longer half the face of a friend. Using current gravity and topography data sets, the side of the body that never faces the Earth has the look of a palimpsest: the ...

“The dark side of the moon”: The term has a poetic ring. It has long been mined in popular culture, not least by Pink Floyd, ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an uncrewed NASA probe, captures images of Mare Orientale, a lunar site never seen directly with human eyes. Credit: NASA GSFC / Arizona State University / Getty ...

The first images from Artemis II reveal what the moon looks like just 7,000 km from the surface—and confirm that NASA is ...

The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon's largest impact feature, the South Pole–Aitken basin, is so named because it stretches between Aitken crater and the ...

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 ...

New lunar samples from the far side reveal it formed from cooler magma than the near side, confirming the Moon’s interior is not uniform. Researchers suggest fewer heat-producing elements on the far ...

HOUSTON — The Artemis II astronauts are now more than halfway to the moon and have caught their first glimpses of the lunar far side. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live updates from the NASA Artemis II crew's journey around the far side of the moon inside their ...

For about 40 minutes, no one on Earth could know exactly what the four astronauts were doing. During their interlude in ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar history—and to the rocks you’ll want sampled next. A study led by Jeffrey ...