In a stunning reminder of our place in the vastness of space, a remarkable image taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows Earth and its Moon captured alongside the awe-inspiring rings of Saturn. The ...

We may already have had our first-ever encounter with dark matter, according to researchers who say a mysteriously ...

all already have plans for radio telescopes on the far side of the Moon - a dark and quiet spot which is shielded from Earth’s radio transmissions. “This is something that has been around for ...

Spaceweather reports that this "dark plasma" is not dark in the sense that dark matter or dark energy are; rather, this plasma is cooler and less luminous than the background sun and denser than ...

The revelation is based on analysis of lunar soil samples gathered by the first spacecraft to return to Earth with ... far side of the moon, which is sometimes called the dark side of the moon ...

Now, China is sending another mission to the far side, and this time, its goal is to return the first samples of the moon’s “hidden side” to Earth ... s always in dark,” Nelson responded.

China’s Chang’e-6 lunar probe has successfully returned to earth with the first rock and soil samples ever collected from the far side of the moon. The re-entry capsule containing the samples ...

Normally the dark side of the moon is truly dark. Like Earth, the moon is spherical, and sitting in space, one half of it is always lit by the sun. As the moon orbits our planet, we see different ...