The far side of the Moon has turned out to be far stranger than many planetary scientists expected, and the latest surprise ...

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New research from samples provided by a Chinese spacecraft has confirmed that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago. The revelation is based on analysis of lunar soil ...

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 back by China ...

Lunar samples serve as a critical link between orbital remote sensing and ground-truth measurements. Previous sample-return ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior. Lunar samples reveal the far side of the moon, hidden from Earth's view, may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have had their first look at rock samples brought back from the far side of the Moon by its Chang’e-6 mission. The mission was China’s second excursion to the Moon’s far side, ...

The moon's insides are crooked thanks to the near side being some 306 degrees Fahrenheit hotter at depth than its counterpart on the lunar far side. This is the conclusion of an international team of ...

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 ...