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“There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.” —Pink Floyd With my apologies to Roger Waters, who wrote those lyrics, there is a dark side of the moon. And ...

The dark side of the Moon has been revealed in a Nasa image, showing it as it moves in front of the sunlit side of Earth. The image was taken by a camera on board the Deep Space Climate ...

A lunar day and night both last for around two weeks. As the Moon rotates and orbits around the Earth at the same speed, it means that humans looking up at the night sky will always see the same side ...

In a series of images taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on July 16, the so-called dark side of the moon is fully illuminated as the moon crosses between the camera and Earth.

NASA unexpectedly lost communication with Orion early Wednesday morning, but it was resolved 47 minutes later. Prior to going dark, the capsule beamed back close-up shots of the moon.

EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across ...