WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Technical personnel work at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing on June 2. China's Chang'e-6 touched down on the far ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, performed a wet chemistry experiment on Mars, detecting over 20 organic compounds in ancient lakebed rocks, including a nitrogen-bearing molecule ...

The first-ever samples from the far side of the Moon have touched down on Earth. China’s Chang’e 6 capsule landed on Tuesday in Inner Mongolia, carrying rocks that could confirm or debunk scientists’ ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using an ocean drilling vessel have dug the deepest hole ever in rock from Earth's mantle - penetrating 4,160 feet (1,268 meters) below the Atlantic seabed - and ...

Volcanic rock samples collected during NASA’s Apollo missions bear the isotopic signature of key events in the early evolution of the Moon, a new analysis found. Those events include the formation of ...

China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side in June. Its moon lander, Chang'e 6, used a robotic scoop and drill to collect approximately 5 pounds (2 ...