WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Scientists obtained the most detailed measurements of the moon's gravity and used that data to model for the first time the formation of a major impact basin and the rings that ...
The Moon’s biggest scar may be hiding something even stranger than the impact that made it. Deep beneath the South ...
Billions of years ago, a giant asteroid struck the moon with so much energy that it melted rock until it was super-heated and white-hot, or what scientists call impact melt. This eventually cooled and ...