An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws ...

While this Route 66 attraction in Arizona flies under most passersby's radar, it offers an amazing chance to see an impact ...

The night before my sons and I visited Meteor Crater in Arizona, we camped at a nearby park in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau. After dinner, while the kids played in the tent, I read an ar… ...

WINSLOW, Az. — Located between Flagstaff and Winslow, you’ll come across the world’s best-preserved meteor crater. Known as the Barringer Crater, it’s the first proven meteor crater on ...

Meteor Crater is the best-preserved meteor impact site on Earth, and it’s right here in Arizona. “What makes Meteor Crater special is that there’s truly no other impact site on Earth like it ...

Lowell Observatory along with Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum will co-host Asteroid Day Flagstaff on June 30. The daylong public event is meant to discuss asteroids and their impacts on ...

Mid-August, we learned soon after our arrival in Flagstaff, Arizona, is the height of monsoon season. ... The Milky Way, as seen from Meteor Crater in Arizona. Kyle RM Johnson.

The gigantic crater was spotted from the plane as it flew over Arizona - it was formed around 50,000 years ago when a 300ton meteor hurtled towards the earth creating a huge explosion ...

A Crater in Arizona Is Proof of the Universe's Wicked Curveball Fifty thousand years ago, a 150-foot-wide meteor crashed in the Grand Canyon State. This is how it happened.

WINSLOW, Arizona — Located between Flagstaff and Winslow, you’ll come across the world’s best-preserved meteor crater.Known as the Barringer Crater, it’s the first proven meteor crater on ...