We've known for a long time that the moon used to be a far more explosive place — lunar basalt samples previously were obtained from the moon's near side, which perpetually faces Earth, during U ...

China's Chang'e 6 probe landed in the Inner Mongolian region in northern China on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon, in a global first.

China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first.