The farside possesses a thicker crust - the outermost layer of the planet - and is more mountainous and cratered.

When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the ...

Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

The Moon has always been a plain, grayscale, landscape. Its plains and craters offer some variety, but the lunar surface ...

NASA is not immune to the effects of a government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement before ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

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New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding ...

While Donald Trump may have shocked many at the UN General Assembly when he called climate change "the greatest con job ever ...

Among them is Professor Yang Li, a geoscientist at Beijing’s Peking University and an honorary professor at the University ...

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The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...