By Shannon Hall In a spaceflight first, China’s Chang ... by the sun and has the same phases as the near side. There is no permanently “dark side” of the moon, although it has been described ...

But until now, China has never explored the moon's mysterious dark side. No one has. That's actually why it's called the "dark side". It's not hidden from the sun. It's hidden from our view.

the constant stream of charged particles flowing off the sun and across the solar system, which barrages the moon and implants its surface with particles. — China's moon-sampling Chang'e 5 probe ...

A European experiment aboard China's Chang'e 6 mission has recorded ... which repels and traps charged particles from the sun, the moon lacks its own magnetic field. So, gases in its vanishingly ...

“They say that the world’s first trillionaire will be the person who figures out how to mine the moon for minerals,” the author of a 2023 book, “China Is Going To War,” Gordon Chang, tells the Sun.

China’s historic mission ... Scientists say the moon’s dark side – so-called because it is invisible from Earth, not because it never catches the sun’s rays – holds great promise for ...

Explore humanity’s first moon landing ... Chang’e 4, Sun Zezhou, who added that the spacecraft pulled off a “bull’s-eye.” State media reported that the rover, which China has named ...

China has taken a step forward in ... Thanks to its thin exosphere, the moon is an unforgiving place, exposed to both the sun’s rays and the cold of space. Temperatures near the Moon’s equator ...