Scientists analyzed the first and only rock samples from the region, which were brought back to Earth as part of a recent ...

New research confirms volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon billions of years ago NEW YORK -- Volcanoes were ...

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

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil ...

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21 a.m. ET on Dec. 1 — making it a November “black moon” for folks in the western half of the United States, and the first of two December new moons for those on the eastern side.

Since then, many more missions have observed the far side of the moon, shooting new images and shining new light on its surface. And a series of new spacecraft have taken things a step further: In ...

The new moon is the so-called "invisible phase of the moon," according to NASA, because the illuminated side of the moon is facing away from Earth, toward the sun. The moon is also in the sky ...

As many as 1000 man-made objects have been left behind on the moon since the 1950s. Some want to recycle the material, for others they represent a cultural asset worthy of protection.