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

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 ...

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 ...

During a new moon, the lunar near side is plunged into darkness, but the far side is fully lit. In fact, the moon's far side is lighter in color since it lacks the near side's darker basins ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have known that volcanic activity shaped much of the near side of the moon, the hemisphere visible from Earth. However, the far side—long considered more enigmatic ...

Images taken by spacecraft show that about a third of the moon's near-side surface is made up of dark, smooth plains, while only about 1% of the far side has these plains. These dark plains were ...

But it could also be all the more reason for astronauts to stick close to the near side of the moon as currently planned. China became the first country to land on the moon’s far side last year.

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 ...