Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

As a result, we see the same face of the moon every night. In fact, we only got our first glimpse of the far side in 1959 when the Soviet Union's Luna 3 took pictures as it flew by. And while we ...

China launched an uncrewed lunar probe Friday that it hopes makes it the first nation to ever retrieve samples from the ...

The far side of the moon—seen here, captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter—could be much drier than expected. NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University Soil samples from the far side of ...

Learn why water levels are important to understand on the moon and how it could impact future missions to build exploration ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see from Earth might be drier than the near side. By Katrina Miller Katrina ...

October: Luna 3 flies around the moon, taking the first photographs of the far side of the moon. Two more Soviet launches the following year will not achieve proper flight paths. Information about ...

In 1959, Russia took the first ever images of the far side of the Moon. The iconic pictures were completely different to the visible side, shocking scientists. This documentary explores the ...

Lev Zeleny added that the possibility of sending another vehicle to the far side of the Moon was also being considered MOSCOW, December 29. /TASS/. The automated Luna-27b interplanetary probe may ...

BEIJING--China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global ... earth on May 3, and its journey ...