Two gigantic canyons on the moon — both deeper than the Grand Canyon — were carved in less than 10 minutes by floods of rocks ...

Scientists estimate the asteroid that produced these canyons about 3.8 billion years ago was 15 miles across. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

In the afternoon, while his crew set up camp for the night, Powell would often climb into the canyon to investigate. Much has been learned about the geology of the Grand Canyon and about the ...

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

Yellowstone National Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why—the dynamic landscape ...

Ryan Crow of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) gave a talk to a packed crowd at the Museum of Northern Arizona Jan. 12 ...

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.

The Grand Canyon is the biggest canyon on earth ... In 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran and geology professor named John Wesley Powell led an expedition to chart the wild Colorado and make ...

That is good news for scientists and Nasa, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the Moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...