But the fluids and solids that make up both the moon and Earth can't respond instantaneously. When the two bodies pull on ...

A tiny, previously undisclosed lunar rover has been spotted strapped to the side of China's moon-bound Chang'e 6 lander in ...

China on Friday launched a space probe to collect samples from the far side of the moon as the global space race heats up. An ...

If all goes well, the Chang’e 6 probe will be the first ever to land on the far side of the moon to take samples and bring ...

"They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side that's always in dark," said Nelson, a former senator and astronaut, during the April 17 hearing. "We're not ...

If successful, the Chang’e-6 mission will be the first in history to return a sample from a part of the moon that we never get to see from Earth. By Katrina Miller On Friday, China launched a second ...

A Long March 5 rocket carrying the Chang'e 6 lunar far side sample return mission is scheduled to launch between 5:17 a.m.

China has launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into ...

The only other mission to soft-land on the far side has been Chang’e 4 and it also carried a rover, Yutu-2. SpaceNews’ Andrew ...

The mission, which is expected to last 53 days, will collect two kilograms of lunar samples from the dark side of the moon for analysis.

Since the Chang’e 4 mission in 2019, China remains the only country to have landed on the moon’s far side, sometimes called the “dark side” of the moon. The “dark side” of the moon is ...

So why don't we ever see the far side of the moon? From Earth, it appears as if the moon doesn't rotate at all, but it does spin on its axis, just like Earth does. However, the moon is tidally ...