In Feb. 2021, the DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: ...

The solution is to go to the far side of the moon, where there is no atmosphere and Earth and all its radio noise is not visible. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

The astronomer Jack Burns provided a good summary of the relevant science background at the ... a radio-quiet environment in space. Again, the far side of the Moon will be the best location.

BEIJING — A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the ... the China National Space Administration said. The mission is the sixth in the Chang’e moon exploration program, which is ...

China’s Chang’e-6 probe returned to Earth on Tuesday carrying the first ever samples from the moon’s unexplored far side, a historic feat for Beijing and boon for the country’s lofty space ...

which is now competing with the U.S., still the leader in space. Free from exposure to Earth and other interference, the moon's somewhat mysterious far side is ideal for radio astronomy and other ...

The country’s space agency sent communication hardware into lunar orbit so that it could relay information back and forth between the lander and rover on the Moon’s far side and engineers back ...

However, this was the first time any space program in the world returned material from the Moon's far side. The successful conclusion of this mission, which launched from Earth nearly two months ...

It may seem like a question with a simple answer: How far away is the moon? But the distance between ... an associate professor of Earth and space exploration at Arizona State University and ...

Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the ... before dying on the moon Space photo of the week ...

the major space agencies turned their attention elsewhere for several decades. So far, only 12 humans—all Americans and all men—have set foot on the moon. It wasn’t until 1994 that the moon ...