It has been more than half a year since China's epic Chang'e-6 mission brough back to Earth the first-ever samples from the ...

The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co ...

Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago, US and Chinese researchers have found. Analysis of samples collected by a Chinese mission found basalt ...

As 2024 draws to a close, which of China's recent space missions impressed you the most? Is it the launch of manned ...

When American astronauts landed on the moon in 1969, one of their first tasks — after grabbing a handful of moon rocks in ...

The far side of the Moon has recently revealed some of its secrets through two significant discoveries made by scientists, ...

The strength of the lunar magnetic field may have shot up about 2.8 billion years ago, a Chinese study of samples from the far side of the moon suggests. The study, published online on Thursday in ...

Firefly Aerospace is set to launch its lunar lander, Blue Ghost One, on January 15, 2025, in partnership with NASA, with the ...

A new study makes predictions that future research could test with lunar rocks acquired by China's upcoming Chang'e 6 mission to the far side of the moon. The moon may have received a volcanic ...