A Chinese robot has started exploring the far side of the Moon. The Chang'e-4 probe will explore the surface and carry out geological experiments. China plans to follow this up with further ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon has ranked as one of the bestselling albums of all time for decades. The title was a smash ...

"The back side [of the moon] looks like a sand pile ... Lovell: "Okay, Houston. The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

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 ...

What does a solar eclipse look like from the moon? The NASA-supported ‘Blue Ghost’ spaceship will find out on March 29 — if ...

Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago, US and Chinese researchers have found. Analysis of samples collected by a Chinese mission found basalt ...

According to the space and astronomy news site Universe Today, the grey areas of the moon we can see from Earth represent an amalgamation of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium and aluminum.

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us ... illuminated with an almost bluish-gray glow, along with the brightly lit ...