Ancient peoples created gods and goddesses to explain the patterns and habits of the moon; however, modern science has revealed why the moon "behaves" the way it does. For example, although the moon ...

A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side — a view people on Earth never see. The new video was captured by one of NASA's twin Grail ...

NASA has set a goal of 2024 to land people on the moon again, but the agency hasn't received the funding from Congress that it requested. So that projection is in doubt.

Thanks to NASA, we now know what the solar system looks like, centered on a view of the moon's far side. The computer-generated time-lapse gives two views of the lunar cycle from the side of the ...

Moon NASA probe reveals dark side of the moon. By Space.com. ... crashed into a permanently shadowed crater near the moon's south pole. NASA launched the $504 million LRO mission in June 2009.

In a series of images taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on July 16, the so-called dark side of the moon is fully illuminated as the moon crosses between the camera and Earth.

A new video from NASA is shedding light on the dark side of the moon. The nearly two-minute animated video released on Feb.4 shows what the moon looks like on the side that's not visible from Earth.

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help ...

A number of people who've seen NASA's annual lunar phase and libration videos have asked what the other side of the Moon looks like, the side that can't be seen from the Earth. This video answers ...

NASA has never sent a probe to the moon’s far side, sometimes colloquially (but inaccurately) referred to as the dark side of the moon. However, China has visited this area, sending a probe ...

On two counts, that was untrue: The so-called far side of the moon is not dark, despite popular belief, nor is it completely unknown to American scientists. SEE ALSO: NASA is back in the moon ...

Get ready to take a trip to the “dark side” of the moon. An animated video from NASA shows what the moon looks like from the other side in stunning detail. “Just like the near sid… ...