The dark side of the moon may be the most misnamed place in all of the solar system, in fact, by some accounts, the nearside ...

The Moon has long captivated scientists with its dual nature. While its near side always faces Earth, the far side or 'dark side' remains hidden due to being tidally locked with our planet. A new ...

Researchers have analyzed lunar soil brought back from the dark side of the moon. More Xu Bin ... However, the far side is pockmarked with craters, and lacks the large lava-filled basins found ...

The dark side of the moon is home to a number of large lunar craters, including the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest ...

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

What does the dark side of the Moon look like? 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), ...

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

Mare Crisium, or the 'Sea of Crises', can be spotted on the night of May 30 as an oval-shaped dark patch on the moon's ...

China has just successfully scored its latest forte in the space race after landing on the Moon's dark ... side during the Apollo missions back in the 1970s suggested that some of its craters ...

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

Chang'e-6's approximately six-minute flight from the surface capped its two-day stay on the Moon's "dark side," so named not ... one of the largest impact craters in the solar system, Sunday ...