Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.

A canyon is a deep, narrow valley with steep sides. Here on Earth, canyons are typically formed by long-term erosion from rivers or tectonic activity. But on the moon, where there’s no ...

Moon Grand Canyon carved out in less than 10 minutes by bullet-fast space rocks - Space rocks travelling as fast as a bullet carved out 2.6km trench in lunar surface. advertisement.

The Schrödinger impact basin is located on the outer margins of the moon's 1,500-mile-wide (2,400 km) South Pole–Aitken basin. Scientists believe it was formed when a large meteor tore into the ...

Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks traveling as fast as bullets, a new study finds.

Two immense canyons on the moon's far side that rival Earth's Grand Canyon were produced by a cataclysmic collision nearly four billion years ago, according to new research published on Tuesday.

Flagstaff, Ariz. • Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the moon, they took crash courses in geology at the Grand Canyon and a nearby impact crater that ...

THE GRAND CANYON: Unseen Beauty: Running the Colorado River, by Tom Blagden Jr. (Rizzoli, $50.) Blagden, a professional nature photographer, documents one of the world’s natural wonders from a ...

Moon Grand Canyon carved out in less than 10 minutes by bullet-fast space rocks. Space rocks travelling as fast as a bullet carved out 2.6km trench in lunar surface . Anthony Cuthbertson.