Earth's temporary asteroid friend last year was a chunk of its real moon that had been blasted into space thousands of years ...
Basalt samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission helped researchers for the first time to precisely measure the age of volcanic eruptions on the far side of the Moon. After analyzing the sample ...
Chinese-American scientist was dubbed the ‘first lady of physics’, but her contributions to her native land remain shrouded ...
That is why the moon is pockmarked with so many craters. Also, while it's commonly referred to as the "dark side" of the moon, the far side is lit up half the time—and fully lit when we down on ...
And then we rotated the spacecraft around 180 degrees and there, slowly slipping by, were the ancient old craters on the far side of the moon, just about sixty miles below. Once they looped around ...
The far side of the moon... There's good evidence that ice is there. In October 2009, NASA deliberately smashed a rocket into one of the craters and confirmed that the plume of material thrown off ...
Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular, with frozen water presumed to exist in deep craters at ... telescopes on the far side of the Moon.
China launched the Chang’e-4 lander and rover mission to the far side of the moon in late 2018, with the lander and Yutu-2 rover touching down in Von Kármán crater Jan. 3, 2019. The latest ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our closest celestial neighbor — kicking ...