As astronomers have stressed for decades, “far side” is the accurate scientific term, but the spooky indeterminacy of “dark side” allows everyone else to tap into the same stoned ...

We’ve been biased by our use of samples from the near side of the Moon, and this discovery, if confirmed, has a lot of implications for understanding how much water there is on our celestial neighbour ...

“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 moo ...