Volcanic rock, dating back billions of years, has been detected in the first samples collected from the mysterious "dark side".

To obtain a sample from this area is really important because it’s an area that otherwise we have no data for.'

This discovery provides further evidence that the Moon’s volcanic activity was not limited to the side we see from Earth. Researchers already knew that volcanoes were active on the near side of the Moon during a similar period, but these new findings ...