Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon has ranked as one of the bestselling albums of all time for decades. The title was a smash ...

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

A Chinese robot has started exploring the far side of the Moon. The Chang'e-4 probe will explore the surface and carry out geological experiments. China plans to follow this up with further ...

The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from the far side of the moon this year.

The moon’s far side is pockmarked by craters and has fewer of the near side’s flat, dark plains carved by lava flows. Why the two halves are so different remains a mystery, said study co ...

"The back side [of the moon] looks like a sand pile ... Lovell: "Okay, Houston. The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd’s biggest and most successful album, bounds back onto three Billboard charts this week following Record Store Day. The title can be found on five rankings ...

According to the space and astronomy news site Universe Today, the grey areas of the moon we can see from Earth represent an amalgamation of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium and aluminum.

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us ... illuminated with an almost bluish-gray glow, along with the brightly lit ...