Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and white-hot, or what scientists call impact melt. This eventually cooled and ...
More than four billion years ago, something enormous slammed into the moon hard enough to carve out a scar wider than India, the seventh-largest country in the world by area. This scar, known as the ...
Lunar mantle rocks may be waiting at NASA’s Artemis IV south pole landing sites — ancient impact simulations and GRAIL ...
The Moon’s biggest scar does not sit quietly in the background. The South Pole-Aitken basin is a vast impact structure more ...
The Moon’s biggest scar may be hiding something even stranger than the impact that made it. Deep beneath the South ...