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Kilauea’s north vent started overflowing again ahead of a 55th eruption episode

The north vent inside Kilauea’s summit crater began overflowing again late on September 22, sending lava several hundred ...
Science

Insights from more than a year of ongoing episodic lava fountaining at Kīlauea

Episodic lava fountaining is rare globally, with only three occurrences from Kīlauea (Hawaii) since 1823. Beginning in ...
Phys.org

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum and is the result of a powerful impact two years ago that initially went undetected. The steep-sided hole—about ...
Forbes

NASA Orbiter Discovers ‘Once-In-A-Century’ Moon Crater

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered a massive new crater, McGetchin, on the ...
Popular Science

The moon’s new crater is 728 feet wide and a once-in-a-century find

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Science Daily

NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024, making it the largest newly formed crater ever identified in the solar system. The impact ...
Los Angeles Times

NASA spacecraft discovers a huge new crater on the moon

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that’s bigger than the Roman Colosseum and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Moon Just Got a Massive New Crater That’s Wider Than Two End-to-End Football Fields. It’s a ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime Observation’

The moon is rocking a massive new crater—and it’s the largest recently formed one that’s been found in the entire solar system. Researchers described the new feature, as well as changes to the lunar ...
earthsky

Newly formed moon crater is once-in-a-century discovery

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or asteroid the size of a 3- to 6-story building hit the moon. But we didn’t know about it until someone scanning Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter maps ...
UPI

NASA finds new impact crater on the moon, cold spot around it

Sept. 17 (UPI) --A scientist working for NASA discovered the largest newly formed crater ever found on the moon and a temperature change in the area surrounding it, the agency announced. During ...
Engadget

NASA's moon orbiter has spotted an impact crater that only happens once a century

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a comet or an asteroid that's about the size of a three- to six‑story building slammed into the lunar surface and made the largest modern-day crater in our ...