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

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior. Lunar samples reveal the far side of the moon, hidden from Earth's view, may ...

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding another layer of strangeness to this mysterious lunar region.

There are many aspects of the human presence on the Moon that need to come together in just the right fashion for a potential colony up there (and elsewhere in the solar system) to succeed. One of the ...