About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over ... to produce these grand canyons on the moon is 1200–2200 times larger than "the nuclear explosion energy once planned to excavate a ...

Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...

These canyons are deeper than ... surpass the Grand Canyon," he said. "Future lunar explorers will be in awe.” The canyons are located near Schrödinger basin, a 200-mile-wide crater formed ...

A canyon is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides. Here on Earth, canyons are typically formed by long-term erosion from ...

The lunar canyons are both part of the larger ... than 10 minutes.” For comparison, it took 5 million to 6 million years for water to erode the landscape of Arizona to create the Grand Canyon.

About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to ...

The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

in stark and jaw-dropping contrast to the Grand Canyon, their creation could have taken less than 10 minutes. The two canyons, Vallis Schrödinger (left) and Vallis Planck (right), radiating from the ...

Scientists found that an asteroid impact carved two massive canyons on the moon in minutes. High-speed debris helped shape ...