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The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) in China as its Chang'e-6 spacecraft landed last year in June on the far side of the moon ...

The far side of the Moon has long been a blank space in humanity’s geological record, but China has just filled in a crucial page. By bringing back pristine material from a hidden lunar basin, its ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see from Earth might be drier than the near side. By Katrina Miller Katrina ...

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 ...