A close conjunction of Venus and the crescent moon were seen across the world this weekend. Here are the best images of one ...

While scientists already knew of volcanic activity on the near side of ... quality images beamed back since, including an extraordinary Nasa video showing the Moon from the far side, with Earth ...

The Apollo moon program resulted in a legacy of thousands of images - all of them ... lunar surface - both of the far side and of potential landing sites on the near side. The 'Earthrise ...

In fact, we only got our first glimpse of the far side in 1959 when the Soviet Union's Luna 3 took pictures as it flew by. And while we've had numerous landings on the near side of the moon no one ...

With no direct communication link possible, all pictures ... side", though "dark" in this case means "unseen" rather than "lacking light". In fact, both the near and far sides of the Moon ...

On 25 June, Li Chunlai watched eagerly as a capsule carrying the first pieces of the far side of the Moon ... back soil and rock from the Moon’s near side. The latest shipment, containing ...

BEIJING--A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side ... Chinese moon goddess. It is the second designed to bring back samples, following the Chang’e 5, which did so from the near side in ...

What will China's Chang'e-4 mission learn about the far side of ... on the Moon will be outside this protective bubble and exposed to particles travelling through open space at near the speed ...

While past U.S. and Soviet missions have collected samples from the moon’s near side, the Chinese mission was the first that has collected samples from the far side. The moon program is part of ...

Now, the Chang’e-6 samples can help scientists explore the differences between the moon’s near and far side, which had been previously detected by remote sensing, by unraveling the far side ...