Ida is the second asteroid visited by a spacecraft, and the first found to have its own moon. The moon was later named Dactyl. Itokawa is part of what remains from a much larger object that was ...

YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...

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

Asteroid headed towards Earth could smash into the Moon, scientists say - Nasa expects chances of Earth collision to be ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 billion years ago. Unlike Earth's, these canyons formed in less than ...

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

This image provided by NASA shows a view from orbit looking obliquely across the surface of the moon, where an ancient asteroid strike carved out a pair of grand canyons on the moon’s far side.

Delve in and read on to know the details! Billions of years ago, an asteroid or comet struck the Moon, creating two huge canyons in just minutes. This discovery has amazed scientists, showing how ...

The object that struck the moon is estimated to have been about 15 mile in diameter, larger than the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago and doomed the dinosaurs. "When the impacting ...