The Chang’e-4 spacecraft became the first to visit the moon’s far side in 2019. The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by ...

China in 2020 returned samples from the moon’s near side, the first time anyone had done so since the former Soviet Union in 1976. Analysis of the samples found they contained water in tiny ...

Radio astronomers like a bit of peace and quiet, so they're sending an historic first radio telescope to the Moon. To block ...

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.

Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by ...