NASA is advancing plans to construct a radio telescope on the Moon's far side – a location uniquely shielded from the ...

The side of the moon facing Earth is not illuminated during an eclipse. That, along with the brightness of the daytime sky, makes the moon virtually invisible to the human eye. Dark half of moon ...

Mare Crisium, or the 'Sea of Crises', can be spotted on the night of May 30 as an oval-shaped dark patch on the moon's ...

Countless shadowed craters line the terminator all the way down to the moon's southern pole, while the 54-mile-wide (87 km) ...

Telescopes placed on the dark side of the Moon could pick up the first signs ... from the Moon is an idea that has been a glint in the eye of Seti astronomers from the very beginning of the ...

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The two canyons, called Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, are located on the far side of the moon, so they can only be seen from orbit—not from Earth. Each canyon is over 165 miles long and ...

Here's when to keep your eye on the sky: The next full moon ... there's no continuous view of the entire side of the Moon that's facing the Sun, leading to the many phases we see.

The flag, made from the volcanic rock basalt, was designed to resist corrosion and the extreme temperatures on the far side of the moon with an eye on future lunar missions, a Chang’e-6 engineer ...

MORE: Get a stunning glimpse at dark side of the moon with NASA's ShadowCam An annular solar eclipse will occur in the sky on October 2 over parts of South America. This type of eclipse is similar ...