China's Chang'e-6 lunar module has returned to Earth after two months in space on the "dark" side of the moon. The spacecraft, which launched on May 3, 2024, has achieved a significant milestone ...

To solve this problem, China launched a satellite — Queqiao-2 — into lunar orbit back in March, which was used to relay communications from Earth around to the dark side of the Moon. This allowed ...

(Photo by MJ Kim/Getty Images) Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon rises onto and falls from the Billboard charts fairly regularly. Whether the title is present or not on the weekly rankings ...

Pink Floyd‘s masterpiece album The Dark Side of the Moon has just about everything going for it: profound themes, cutting lyrics, mesmerizing instrumental passages, stunning sound effects.

But Chang’e 6 broke new ground. This is the first time in history that humans have collected rocks from the Moon’s “dark” side. The Moon doesn’t orbit the Earth like the Earth orbits the ...

THIS is the monumental moment China's space probe lands on Earth carrying the first ever sample from the dark side of the moon. As the space race hots up, China's Chang'e-6 probe has landed safely ...

Most of the time, the full moon isn't perfectly full. We always see the same side of the moon, but part of it is in shadow, due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are ...

Full Moons can appear different sizes when rising compared to high in the sky, but they always have the dark ... far side. The reason for this is not, as some people assume, that the Moon doesn ...

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 ...

Often referred to as the "dark side" of the Moon, the far side actually receives about the same amount of sunlight. But there are notable differences between the two sides, which we realized after ...

Now, Chang'e 6 has landed at the Apollo basin on the moon's far side (known as the 'dark side of the moon'). The following mission, Chang'e 7 scheduled for 2026, has the lunar south pole as its ...

Earlier this month the Chang'e-6 robot landed on the dark -183C side of the moon before successfully retrieving rock and soil samples in what is a world-first. The satellite touched on the lunar ...