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

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 ...

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 ...

A lunar crater of planetary proportions, the South Pole-Aitken basin, is finally revealing the secrets of its violent birth.

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

Coon Butte or Barring Crater near Winslow, Arizona, is 4,150 feet wide and 575 feet deep. Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you ...

A massive crater hidden beneath the Atlantic seafloor has been confirmed as the result of an asteroid strike from 66 million ...

A new study has revealed that our understanding of the South Pole-Aitken basin was quite literally back-to-front, meaning ...

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

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...