Science news articles about 'dark side of the moon'

... in reflection of light from the Earth's land masses and oceans can be seen on the dark side of the moon, a phenomenon known as earthshine. The paper will be published this week, in the international ...

... June 18th, 2009,  will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. The Lyman-Alpha ... perpetual darkness of the Moon's so-called permanently shadowed regions - the dark side of the moon. ...

... us a lot about what's happening inside the Moon, but until now mapping has been very limited ... pole to pole, with detailed measures of surface topography, on the dark side of the moon as well as the near ...

New images from a Japanese satellite suggest the volcanoes were active far later than previously thought.

See colliding galaxies, the dark side of a moon, a "cat's eye" nebula, and more in this week's roundup of images from space.

... , only about five percent of the world's oceans have been explored. (By contrast, the dark side of the moon has been throughly mapped.) Of all the world's unexplored marine environments, why did the ...

Solar system's largest ring discovered, and it's tarnishing a neighbor [Read more]