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 ...

2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...

The few craters found on our planet and the many dotting the landscape of the Moon are proof. One such impact created the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin which is located on the far side of the moon.

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

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 ...

BEIJING--A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon Sunday to collect soil and ... down at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time in a huge crater known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin, the China ...

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 ...

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 ...