The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured a striking up-close view of Earth's cosmic neighbor as it prepares in the days ahead to land on the moon.. Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company ...

The data collected by the Chinese lander provided scientists with an unprecedented view of the Moon’s far side, confirming for the first time lunar regolith exists on both sides of the Moon.

Three of these payloads will head to the 194-mile-wide (312 km) Schrödinger Crater, which is an impact basin on the far-side of the moon near the lunar south pole, in 2025 on a lunar lander built ...

The potential science from future lunar missions stretches far beyond the moon. A new radio telescope on the far side of the moon could capitalize on NASA's new Artemis era of lunar exploration, say ...

On the night of July 2, the first quarter moon phase will create an extraordinary lunar spectacle. An ‘X’ and ‘V’ will be ...

KIAH Houston. NASA Expert Describes Moon Side View Of Friday's Total Lunar Eclipse. Posted: March 13, 2025 | Last updated: June 13, 2025. If you were on the moon during the total lunar eclipse ...

The far side of the moon has a certain mystique about it. It’s eternally out of view, never facing the Earth—which has earned it a misleading nickname, “the dark side,” as if sunlight ...

NASA's new Orion spaceship is beyond the far side of the moon, and it's beaming gorgeous photos back to Earth. The space capsule launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on November 15 ...

Chang'e-6 landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the opposite side of the moon to Earth on June 1 and has now returned bearing lunar rocks and dust.

The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first men to see the far side of the moon with their own eyes, without the aid of optical devices. From their orbital altitude of 69 statute miles, Frank Borman ...

The rocks beneath an ancient volcano on the moon’s far side remain surprisingly warm, ... The data from Chang’e-1 and Chang’e-2 thus provided a different view of the moon, ...

It wasn’t until 1959 when the Soviet Luna 3 probe gave us our first glimpse of the Moon’s far side, and it wasn’t until 2019 when the Chang’e 4 mission made the first soft landing.