The moon changes each night, well, from our perspective it does anyway. This is because of the lunar cycle, a recurring ...

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.

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.

Why ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ still matters at 50, and not just to dads. Pink Floyd’s masterpiece maintains a cross-generational appeal that has made it among the best-selling albums of all time.

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.

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.

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

The moon is shrinking − but it's nothing we need to worry about, scientists say in a new study. The shrinkage is too small to have any effect on us down here on Earth, such as on eclipses, full ...

“There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.” —Pink Floyd. With my apologies to Roger Waters, who wrote those lyrics, there is a dark side of the moon.

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 ...

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 ...

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.