Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The dark side of the moon is real — but it’s probably not ...

Stephen M. Elardo is in the Florida Planets Lab, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA. Read the paper: Ultra-depleted mantle source of basalts from ...

There is a signal, born in the earliest days of the cosmos. It’s weak. It’s faint. It can barely register on even the most sensitive of instruments. But it contains a wealth of information about the ...

A NASA-funded plan to build a large radio telescope on the moon's far side is nearing final approval and could become a reality by the 2030s, researchers say. The ambitious project will help safeguard ...