The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and ...

New research shows that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, mirroring activity on the near ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

Astronauts, state representatives and engineers gathered in celebration on a wide-open field at Johnson Space Center on ...

Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.

The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar ...

After analyzing the sample brought by Chang'e-6, researchers found that the moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side ...

Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago ...