Researchers have found a link between two geological events in iconic locations of the U.S. Southwest that scientists ...

Spanning three quarters of a mile and almost 600 feet deep, Meteor Crater was blasted by a nickel-iron meteorite roughly the ...

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

The resulting Nankoweap landslide would have dumped enormous limestone boulders into the river corridor, creating a temporary ...

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

A smaller Meteor Crater-size impact may happen every 50,000 years. Which means, perhaps, we’re due for another. The delay: It’s a 10- or 15-minute detour off Interstate 40 to the crater.

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

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 ...

Wow, what a hole in the ground! When that meteor hit, I bet it got the attention of the mammoths, sloths and whatever other prehistoric creatures were around back then. Not exactly a scientific ...

While Bowser93x added: "That crater is a mile long, just an example of how big the earth is." Newsweek reached out to u/aurallyskilled for comment. An aerial view of Meteor Crater Flagstaff, Arizona.

The Meteor Crater Natural Landmark site near Winslow in northern Arizona. A video of a hiker visiting Meteor Crater, the best-preserved meteorite impact site on Earth, has gone viral on TikTok.

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