The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

Indeed the far side remained an enigma to humans, but only until October 1959. That's when the Soviet space program swung the Luna 3 probe around the moon. The spacecraft returned several grainy ...

Soil samples from the far side of the moon suggest the little-known, distant face of our natural satellite is much drier than the side that faces Earth, according to a new analysis. In 2019 ...

Recent discoveries by China's Chang'e-4 mission have shed light on previously hidden structures on the far side of the Moon .

landed in the vast South Pole-Aitken (SPA), and returned to Earth with 4 pounds and 4.29 ounces (1,935.3 grams) of the first-ever samples from the moon's far side in late June. New research from ...

EVER since the Soviet Union scored a Space Race milestone in 1959 when its Luna 3 probe returned the first photos of the moon's far side, it has been claimed that the USSR used film originally ...

When the Chang’e-4 mission landed in the Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, China became the first and only country to land on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away ...

So those astronomers have turned in desperation to the quietest desert they can think of: the far side of the Moon. It wasn’t until 1959 when the Soviet Luna 3 probe gave us our first glimpse of ...

Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far ... moon’s near side by NASA’s Apollo program and Russia ...

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A Chinese probe has returned to Earth carrying the first samples ever taken from the far side of ... Union’s robotic Luna missions) all landed on the near side of the moon — the one that ...

The moon has some ... from the moon’s near side by NASA’s Apollo program and Russia’s Luna missions, the new research found. The age of the basalt rock from the far side is surprisingly ...