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

Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...

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

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

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which are each about the size of Earth’s Grand Canyon. By Kenneth Chang ...

While the Grand Canyon took millions of years to form, the two grand canyons on the Moon were carved in less than 10 minutes." The impacting asteroid or comet likely hit the lunar surface with a ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about 10 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 ...

“The landscape of the south polar region of the moon is so dramatic,” Kring says. “If it occurred on Earth, it would be a national or international park.” The Grand Canyon, for example ...