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

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

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

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

Our planet's Moon might look dead and stagnant from our vantage point here on Earth, but a new study suggests it was moving ...

“Most planetary collision scenarios are classified as ... Charon and Earth’s moon are both a large fraction of the size of the main body they orbit, which is unlike other smaller moons ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

The prevailing theory was that the Moon was the result of a collision between the early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the Moon formed from material ejected from ...