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

The biggest and the oldest crater on the moon stretches over 2,000 kilometres and scientists now know exactly when it was formed. Studies have shown that both the Moon and Earth were hit by ...

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

The first stop on this epic journey is Mawrth Vallis, shown in the map below: Mawrth Vallis is one of the oldest ... crater is 286 miles wide — twice the size of the largest impact crater on ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.