A recent study published in Science Advances reveals that the moon’s interior is asymmetrical, with the side facing Earth significantly warmer than the far side. This finding comes from detailed ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co ...

In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and Soviet Union spacecraft in the 1970s.

While the near side is splotched with smooth dark plains caused by ancient lava flows, the far side is pockmarked with craters. Later missions revealed that the geochemical makeup of the two sides ...

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 ...

They estimated the water abundance at less than 1.5 micrograms per gram, on the dry end of what’s been found in samples gathered over past decades from the moon’s near side.

The moon itself blocks communication between mission controllers on Earth and the far side. But in 2018, China put a communication relay satellite in space about 40,000 miles beyond the moon that ...

The Chang'e-4 spacecraft became the first to visit the moon's far side in 2019. The moon's far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side's flat, dark plains carved by lava flows.

The far side of the moon looks very different from the near side, and with the Chang'e 6 mission, scientists are hoping to learn why. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and Soviet Union spacecraft in the 1970s.

In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and Soviet Union spacecraft in the 1970s.