Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly ...

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

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

This research helps us understand the violent nature of cosmic collisions and their role in shaping planetary landscapes. By ...

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of ...

The asteroid’s closest approach to Earth, it turned out, had been two days earlier, when YR4 was about 800,000 kilometers from our planet, roughly twice as far away as the moon. “It was ...

The memo said “Asteroid 2024 YR4,” first detected ... Many projections show it closer than the moon, with the slight chance of it hitting Earth. Earth’s advantage in a universe of rocks ...

The asteroid came closest to Earth on Christmas Day — passing within roughly 500,000 miles of Earth, about twice the distance of the moon ... whether it will hit or miss the planet, he told ...

(AP) — A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Stunning conjunction of Venus, crescent moon ... it will hit or miss ...