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

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

The lunar canyons Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck are extraordinarily deep, and scientists now know the valleys were ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

Now, scientists believe that they have figured it out. Two huge canyons scored into the surface of the Moon were created in ...

In a significant discovery, a team of scientists at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), an institute of the Universities ...

Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s ...

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.

They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.

Scientists used photos and data from Nasa’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the Moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.