The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

The far side of the moon, which we can never see from our vantage point on Earth, looks surprisingly different than the orb we're used to seeing in the night sky. The near side we are so familiar ...

The moon's far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side's flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co-author ...

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 ...

The Giordano Bruno crater is on the far side of the moon, which we can't see. The near side is what's visible to us. As the moon orbits the Earth, the sun lights up half of it, and that's when we ...

Jim Head, a planetary scientist at Brown University, says that the far side of the moon has many other mysteries as well. Unlike the near side, he says, the far side appears heavily cratered and ...

The near side of the moon has been studied more extensively than the far side. Dinkun Chen, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Scientists analyzed the first and thus far only rock samples from the ...

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 ...

This event would have ejected a significant amount of debris into space, which eventually came together to form the Moon. For about 200 million years, the near and far side of the Moon continued ...

The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co ...

The samples from the far side, which is less affected by volcanic activity compared to the near side, could provide crucial insights into the moon's formation and history. "The CE-6 samples ...