YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...

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

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

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

A vast impact crater near the moon’s south pole was formed by an asteroid moving at more than a kilometre a second, releasing energy when it struck equivalent to 130 times that of all the ...

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand ... "Nearly four billion years ago an asteroid or comet flew over the lunar south pole, brushed by the mountain summits of ...

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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. That's good news for scientists and NASA ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 mile in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting ...