Prior to space exploration, many speculated the far side was a frozen and ominous region, a myth perpetuated by Pink Floyd's trippy "Dark Side of the Moon" album in 1973.

Because, as you listen to it in 2023, 50 years after its release, “Dark Side of the Moon” somehow still manages to leave you feeling like something inside you has changed irreversibly.

Pink Floyd's album rock classic "The Dark Side of the Moon" is about to turn 50. One of the best-selling releases of all time, "Dark Side" will be reissued in a special deluxe box set ($299.98 ...

The Chang'e 6 mission brought material from the South Pole – Aitken (SPA) basin - a massive impact crater that hit the far side of the moon 4.2 billion years to 4.3 billion years ago.

The dark side of the Moon is more lumpy than the near side, and covered in large craters. The biggest is called the South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA Basin), which is 2,500 kilometres in diameter. This is ...

And that makes the far side of the Moon the ideal location for a dark-age-hunting radio telescope, free from human interference and noise. Ideas abound to make this a possibility.

The lander-ascender combination of Chang'e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it landed on the moon surface, June 4, 2024. New research confirms that volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far ...

A new molecule may soon enable tiny hard drives that store vastly more data. Withstanding extreme cold, it paves the way for ...

They estimated the water abundance at less than 1.5 micrograms per gram, on the dry end of what’s been found in samples gathered over past decades from the moon’s near side.

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help safeguard ...

However, no one has examined if the far side of the moon has different water quantities, until now. In a new study published in Nature, Hu and his colleagues analyzed a mantle sample brought back by ...