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

Scientists verify China’s Jinlin crater in Guangdong as Earth’s largest Holocene impact site, measuring 900 meters wide and ...

The Jinlin impact crater in south China's Guangdong Province has been confirmed as the largest known crater on Earth since the Holocene period, which spans from 11,700 years ago to the present, the ...

Recent research has shed light on the role of the Moon’s largest impact crater in explaining the stark visual and geological differences between the Moon’s near side, which faces Earth, and its far ...

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

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

One of the best examples of this phenomenon is the moon's largest impact feature ... but the lunar craters are set apart.

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

U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have ...

As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

New analyses of the largest impact crater on the moon reveal unexpected insights into its tumultuous past. They also suggest that once astronauts return to the moon, they will have access to a ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...