The Chang'e-4 lander was launched in 2018, becoming the first spacecraft ever to land on the far side the moon.

“They are going to have a lander on the far side of the moon, which is the side that’s always in dark,” Nelson responded. “We’re not planning to go there.” The moon’s hidden side has ...

Since the Chang’e 4 mission in 2019, China remains the only country to have landed on the moon’s far side, sometimes called the “dark side” of the moon. The “dark side” of the moon is ...

Scientists have just uncovered billions of years’ worth of secrets buried beneath the surface of the moon. Our celestial ...

CHINA is set to send a robot spaceship up into space to explore the chilling dark side of the moon in the coming days. The three-part journey will see China's extraordinary Chang'e-6 spacecraft ...

The Chang'e-6 probe will land on the dark side of the moon -- the portion that is away from the view of the Earth -- to collect samples and return them to Earth during the 53-day mission.

(Photo by MJ Kim/Getty Images) Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is already one of the most commercially successful albums of all time. The title has earned more weeks on the Billboard 200 than ...

The Juno spacecraft, which orbits Jupiter, has been imaging the giant planet's moon Europa and spotted apparent movement in ...

The entire mission is set to last 53 days. In 2020, China returned samples from the moon’s near side, the first time anyone had done so since the former Soviet Union in 1976. Analysis of the ...

Related: Night sky: What you can see tonight Fancy taking a more in-depth moonlit tour of our ... So, the moon always shows us the same face; there is no single "dark side" of the moon.