China’s newly confirmed largest impact crater from the Holocene reveals rare geological evidence of a massive ...

A new study reveals that the largest lunar crater, South Pole-Aitken basin, was formed by an oblique impact that shaped the ...

Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have also caused the formation of an ancient lake in the Grand Canyon. This ...

The gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon has led to one hemisphere of the Moon being locked facing away from ...

The Moon’s largest and oldest known crater, the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, is revealing secrets that could transform our ...

Astronomers think the basin was created by a massive asteroid scraping along the lunar surface, carving out a crater thousands of kilometres wide and 12 kilometres deep. Read more Astronomers have ...

A new study suggests a massive northern asteroid impact billions of years ago made the Moon's surface radioactive, significantly influencing its geology.

We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago ...

The claim that the world's biggest impact crater is in Mexico was false. The video does not show the world's biggest impact crater or even a crater in Mexico; it's a video of a volcanic crater, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two NASA ...