The researchers were fascinated by a landslide that formed a paleolake and an asteroid impact that carved a massive crater, ...

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

Roughly 37 miles east of Flagstaff, Meteor Crater—formally known as Barringer Crater—was formed approximately 50,000 years ago by a 150-foot-wide iron meteorite. As one of the best-preserved impact ...

This surprising connection between Arizona's world-renowned geological features stretches back 56,000 years, to when a ...

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

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

The Barringer meteorite crater — known popularly as "Meteor Crater" — near Winslow, Ariz., was formed some 50,000 years ago in the flat-lying sedimentary rocks of the Southern Colorado Plateau ...

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 ...

The world-famous Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum in Arizona is a stunning natural wonder, with a wealth of interesting stops along the way.

The draw: Meteor Crater, a pit as round as any moon crater, is more than 4,000 feet across and deep enough to swallow a 60-story building. There’s a tiny museum with a gift shop but no resort ...

The world-famous Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum in Arizona is a stunning natural wonder, with a wealth of interesting stops along the way.

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 ...