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

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

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

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 ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

According to the study, this finding provides the first direct, sample-based evidence that the moon's largest impact basin formed approximately 320 million years after the beginning of solar system.

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

However, it also contains spherules—droplets formed from molten rock thrown up during an impact. But these drops could have travelled ... had on our cratered Moon and on other planets, moons ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

According to the study, this finding provides the first direct, sample-based evidence that the moon's largest impact basin formed approximately 320 million years after the beginning of solar system.