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.

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 ...

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

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

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

W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater. According to new research, the earthquake that the collision caused induced a ...

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 ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

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