As of Friday, July 4, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, 66% of the moon will be ...

Prior to space exploration, many speculated the far side was a frozen and ominous region, a myth perpetuated by Pink Floyd's trippy "Dark Side of the Moon" album in 1973.

There’s no real “dark side” of the moon, but the far side, which faces away from Earth, is different from the near side we see every day. Samples could reveal why.

The dark side of the moon has been the subject of much speculation and conspiracy theories over the years. Some people ...

Why ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ still matters at 50, and not just to dads. Pink Floyd’s masterpiece maintains a cross-generational appeal that has made it among the best-selling albums of all time.

Dark Side of the Moon Was Once Lit by Erupting Volcanos. Published Nov 15, 2024 at 8:38 AM EST Updated Nov 15, 2024 at 10:22 AM EST. By . Shamim Chowdhury is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K.

Because, as you listen to it in 2023, 50 years after its release, “Dark Side of the Moon” somehow still manages to leave you feeling like something inside you has changed irreversibly.

A new molecule may soon enable tiny hard drives that store vastly more data. Withstanding extreme cold, it paves the way for ...

The dark side of the Moon is more lumpy than the near side, and covered in large craters. The biggest is called the South Pole-Aitken Basin (SPA Basin), which is 2,500 kilometres in diameter. This is ...

The Chang'e-4 spacecraft became the first to visit the moon's far side in 2019. The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava ...

However, no one has examined if the far side of the moon has different water quantities, until now. In a new study published in Nature, Hu and his colleagues analyzed a mantle sample brought back by ...

They estimated the water abundance at less than 1.5 micrograms per gram, on the dry end of what’s been found in samples gathered over past decades from the moon’s near side.