Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) in China as its Chang'e-6 spacecraft landed last year in June on the far side of the moon ...

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 ...

Unusual isotopic ratio in samples brought back by Chang'e-6 reveals clues about the early history of Earth's satellite ...

The far side of the moon may be much colder than the side we can see, suggests new research. The interior of the mysterious far side of the satellite could be chillier than the side constantly facing ...

For the first time, scientists have confirmed that the impact cratering rates on the near and far sides of the moon are essentially consistent, laying a solid basis for the establishment of a globally ...

Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and other institutions, have revised the decades-old ...

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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 ...

When the Moon first formed, it was a sea of molten lava. The immense gravity of Earth stretched this molten sea, raising tides on both the near and far sides. But the Moon was spinning, and that ...

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 ...