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The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new analysis of rock samples co-led by a UCL (University College London) and Peking ...

A small uncrewed spacecraft is buzzing the moon, with under two weeks remaining before its bold attempt to land on the lunar surface. But the real treat was the footage beamed back to mission control ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --A new study published Tuesday suggested that the moon's far side of the moon may be colder than the near side. The study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, found that rock ...

The far side of the Moon has long been a blank space in humanity’s geological record, but China has just filled in a crucial page. By bringing back pristine material from a hidden lunar basin, its ...

The Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a test flight around the moon, the first crewed mission to the lunar vicinity in over 50 years. Unlike the Apollo missions, Artemis II's flight path ...

A Chinese probe has returned to Earth carrying the first samples ever taken from the far side of the moon. Chinese state television broadcast images Tuesday of the capsule holding the samples, as it ...

There is a signal, born in the earliest days of the cosmos. It’s weak. It’s faint. It can barely register on even the most sensitive of instruments. But it contains a wealth of information about the ...

The lunar material touched down in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region early Tuesday morning (June 25). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar module returned to Earth Tuesday, successfully completing its historic mission to collect the first ever samples from the far side of the moon in a major step forward for the ...

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