Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis when a massive asteroid smashed into it about ... concentric cracks that form when a stone hits a car windshield, he said.

An asteroid 20 times the size of the Chicxulub impactor wreaked planetary-scale havoc four billion years ago. And the unfortunate recipient was Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. In the study ...

The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, which orbits the largest planet, Jupiter, was hit by an asteroid four billion years ago that shifted the gas giant's satellite on its axis, new research ...

This same asteroid, once regarded as the highest-impact threat to Earth ever recorded, is now shifting attention to our lunar ...

Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, was hit by an asteroid 20 times ... to realize that the location of an asteroid impact on ... More Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is almost precisely ...

New observations suggest that a "city-killer" asteroid has a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon than our planet.

Like Earth, Ganymede was once hit by a giant asteroid - but it was much larger than the one that is commonly believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

Since Jupiter’s orbit takes ... so are more likely to hit. The resonant “pumping” stretching the orbit both inward and outward from the asteroid belt has already made 2024 YR4 cross Earth ...