As Kilauea erupts a 330-foot-tall fountain of lava, officials warn of hazards from volcanic gas that may affect nearby ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

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

The far side of the Moon has its own versions of the Grand Canyon—two of them, in fact! A new study explains how these deep ...

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While you can’t hike to the top, several short trails offer stellar views of Sunset Crater. Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is a small park, and a convenient detour, on your way to or from ...

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 ...

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, unaffected by the asteroid impact, holds older rocks in ...

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

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...