Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a matter of minutes, ...

Insights from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have uncovered that gigantic canyons were carved in mere minutes by floods ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

Now, scientists believe that they have figured it out. Two huge canyons scored into the surface of the Moon were created in ...

Scientists have discovered that two massive lunar canyons, deeper than the Grand Canyon, were formed in a matter of minutes ...

About the canyons: The two canyons, called Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, are located on the far side of the moon, so they can only be seen from orbit — not from Earth. Each canyon is over 165 ...

The lunar canyons Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck are extraordinarily deep, and scientists now know the valleys were ...

The vast valleys of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck demonstrate the incredible forces that shaped the face of the Moon.

Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s ...

"Whereas Arizona’s Grand Canyon was carved by water over the last 5 to 6 million years and from integrated paleocanyons that ...

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of nuclear weapons.