Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have ...

Learn more about the Meteor Crater near the Grand Canyon and how it may have created a paleolake thousands of years ago.

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

A new study suggests ancient wood floated into a cave far above the Colorado River when a meteorite-induced earthquake ...

New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...

Cutting‑edge dating reveals driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves 55,250 years ago when a meteor’s shock wave blocked and ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.

The study dives into questions surrounding how and when driftwood in Stanton’s Cave in the Grand Canyon got there ...