Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These ...
As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...
Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...
Solving a lunar mystery? Scientist at the University of Arizona is the lead author on research proposing a new theory for the ...
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Analyses of moon's largest impact crater reveal unexpected insights into its tumultuous past
When astronauts land near the moon's south pole as part of NASA's Artemis program in a few years, they likely will find ...
Two decades after Silverpit was discovered, Nicholson and colleagues revisited the controversy almost by chance. In 2022, ...
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The moon's largest crater didn't form in the way we thought
The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...
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78-Million-Year-Old Crater Reveals Asteroid Impacts Can Create Long-Lasting Habitats For Microbial Life
The team found evidence that after 4 million years, there were microbes living within the crater, while it was still pretty ...
For decades, scientists have been curious about how much water Mars once had and what led to its gradual transformation into ...
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There’s Something Really Strange About the Moon’s Largest Crater, Where NASA Astronauts Are Due to Land
We may have been wrong about how the Moon's largest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, formed roughly 4.3 billion years ago ...
Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.
For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...
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