A new study suggests the craters were dug out by rocky debris after the lunar surface was struck around 3.8 billion years ago ...
Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...
Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...
facilitating more volcanism on the side of the moon that faces Earth. The result is that the far side has very few maria, and so doesn't have the long wrinkle ridges that the near side has.
Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...
Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...
The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away ... many impact craters on Earth have ...
Meanwhile, the radioactive isotopes were deposited on the near side, where the heat they produced from radioactive decay melted the rock, facilitating more volcanism on the side of the moon that faces ...