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

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

The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth — near the lunar south pole ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

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 far side ...

U.S. and British scientists used photos and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate ... the pole mostly on the moon's near side won't be buried under debris ...

Two such lunar canyons, Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, stretch over 270 km (168 miles) each, with depths of 2.7 km ...

They used images obtained by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to carefully map the crater ... but smaller canyons on the near side of the moon that's visible in the night sky.

So we studied an impact crater on the far side of the moon near the South Pole ... and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the area and calculate the path of debris that produced ...

This discovery is promising for scientists and NASA, which plans to land astronauts at the south pole on the near side of the Moon. This region ... spacecraft to map the canyons and applied ...