New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

The astronauts aboard the Apollo 8 lunar mission became the first humans to directly view the far side of the moon during ...

For the first time in history, scientists have analyzed actual samples from the lunar farside—thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 ...

At the end of June 2024, the Chang'e 6 probe returned to Earth with approximately 1,935.3 grams of lunar samples.Preliminary ...

In 2024, the China National Space Administration launched a spacecraft that carried a lander to the surface of the far side of the moon. The mission was the first to collect samples from the far ...

Chinese scientists have proposed the idea of establishing a radio telescope array on the far side of the Moon. According to ...

Scientists have long known that volcanoes shaped the near side of the Moon, visible from Earth. However, very little was ...

Most of the time, the full moon isn't perfectly full. We always see the same side of the moon, but part of it is in shadow, due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are ...