Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin. Thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 mission, scientists now believe this ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

judging by meteor impact craters, were significantly younger than the surrounding region, suggesting a more recent formation than expected. "Many scientists believe that most of the Moon's ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

the Moon formed a crust and a mantle below. Giant pools of lava filled impact craters and settled into the lunar lowlands, or maria (Latin for “seas”), while highlands and volcanic domes ...

A new map of the moon’s Mare Orientale basin highlights areas containing original impact melt. These findings could help date the basin’s formation, which is estimated to be 3.8 billion years old.

Scientists are revisiting the age-old question of how Earth's moon formed with the development of two new models that work out the complicated physics of planetary collisions. The idea of a ...

(CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the ... Schrödinger impact basin, where an object yet to be identified slammed into the moon billions of years ago.