Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The dark side of the moon is real — but it’s probably not ...

'Hidden structures' discovered deep beneath the dark side of the moon ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy.

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new analysis of rock samples co-led by a UCL (University College London) and Peking ...

Four NASA astronauts are set for a historic journey around the back side of the moon when they launch to the heavens from Florida Wednesday evening and mark man’s return to the lunar area for the ...

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. The big picture of the moon’s origin is fairly well established.

When the Moon first formed, it was a sea of molten lava. The immense gravity of Earth stretched this molten sea, raising tides on both the near and far sides. But the Moon was spinning, and that ...

More than half a century after astronauts last left the lunar surface, NASA is preparing to send a crew of four back to the moon on a fly-by mission that will sling them around the far side. The ...

The interior of the mysterious far side of the moon may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, suggests a new analysis of rock samples co-led by a UCL (University College London) and Peking ...