The Moon has long captivated scientists with its dual nature. While its near side always faces Earth, the far side or 'dark ...

Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.

A massive impact may have sent a shockwave through the moon, jolting rocks just as a magnetic spike peaked and leaving behind ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that ...

NASA’s GRAIL mission reveals thermal differences in the moon’s mantle, explaining surface contrasts between its sides.

Measurements on samples from the near side have ranged between ... s plans to send astronauts to the moon’s south polar region, where permanently shadowed craters are believed to hold massive ...

This was the company's second attempt to land on the Moon, with both missions having toppled over on the lunar surface.

The moon’s near side and far side are quite different in terms of their ... The Chang'e 6 mission brought material from the South Pole – Aitken (SPA) basin — a massive impact crater that hit the far ...

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 ...