Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the "Cosmic Dawn" by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient ...

Dark Side of the Moon Was Once Lit by Erupting Volcanos. Published Nov 15, 2024 at 8:38 AM EST Updated Nov 15, 2024 at 10:22 AM EST. By . Shamim Chowdhury is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K.

A series of research findings by Chinese scientists on the samples collected by the Chang'e-6 mission from the moon's far ...

The dark side of the Moon is more lumpy than the near side, and covered in large craters. The biggest is called the South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA Basin), which is 2,500 kilometres in diameter. This is ...

And that makes the far side of the Moon the ideal location for a dark-age-hunting radio telescope, free from human interference and noise. Ideas abound to make this a possibility.

The moon's near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry—from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity—yet the ...

However, no one has examined if the far side of the moon has different water quantities, until now. In a new study published in Nature, Hu and his colleagues analyzed a mantle sample brought back by ...