Recent findings from samples collected by China's Chang'e 6 mission have provided valuable insights into the history of the moon, particularly its far side. The Chang'e 6 mission launched in early ...

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 ...

The moon’s red hue will fade as it slowly leaves Earth’s inner shadow, receding from upper left to lower right, making it look like a bite has been taken out of the other side, until 4:48 a.m. ET.

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 ...

It was the first successful commercial moon landing. The lander delivered 10 NASA science and delivery payloads to the Mare Crisium basin, which is a lava-flooded region on the near side of the ...

A US private space company says its lunar lander has touched down on the Moon, but at the wrong angle. The Athena spacecraft blasted off from Earth at the end of February and was due to spend 10 ...