Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side. By Andrea Kannapell “The dark side of the moon”: The term has a poetic ring. It has long been mined in popular culture, not least by ...

Have you ever seen the far side of the moon? In a new image, snapped by astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis 2 mission on April 6, 2026, you can see a little piece of the moon's far side. NOTE: It is not ...

The dark side of the moon just got a little bit less mysterious. Artemis II astronauts on their 10-day mission to travel farther away from Earth than anybody has ever before got to see a ...

New shades of brown and green in the rings of impact craters. Rugged terrain and long shadows along their rims. Earth rising over the moon’s horizon and the glow of lofted dust. These are observations ...

Just weeks before the first Artemis 2 launch window, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy had a last-minute idea: What if he could get the Artemis 2 astronauts to shoot the moon the same way he shoots ...