This research helps us understand the violent nature of cosmic collisions and their role in shaping planetary landscapes. By ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

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A giant impact 3.8 billion years ago sent a curtain of rock flying away from a point near the moon’s south pole. When that curtain fell, its rocks plunged up to 3.5 kilometers into the lunar ...

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly ...

A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an asteroid moving at more than a kilometre a second, releasing energy when it struck equivalent to 130 times that of all the ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it. One of these unsolved questions is its origin story. We think the moon ...