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 ...

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

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 ...

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In a surprising twist, two of Arizona’s most iconic landmarks—Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon—may be linked by a cosmic ...

A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a landslide-dammed lake and a paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon. Earth’s ancient ...

A new study suggests a meteor strike that created Arizona’s Meteor Crater 56,000 years ago may have triggered a massive ...

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When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...