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The origin of the strange differences between the near and far sides of the moon are a step closer to being solved, thanks to new findings from China's Chang'e 6 mission that returned samples from the ...

A new analysis of material brought back from the far side of the Moon by China's Chang'e-6 mission has found evidence that could help explain the unexpected differences between the two sides of the ...

A small uncrewed spacecraft is buzzing the moon, with under two weeks remaining before its bold attempt to land on the lunar surface. But the real treat was the footage beamed back to mission control ...

There is a signal, born in the earliest days of the cosmos. It’s weak. It’s faint. It can barely register on even the most sensitive of instruments. But it contains a wealth of information about the ...

Less visible and vocal than its American counterpart, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) is hard at work expanding the Asian country's presence on the Moon. Not only that, but the ...

When the Moon first formed, it was a sea of molten lava. The immense gravity of Earth stretched this molten sea, raising tides on both the near and far sides. But the Moon was spinning, and that ...

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