WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...

Those who've poked along the old, cross-country Route 66 through the American Southwest in Arizona might have accidentally driven by, or perhaps spotted, what looks like a giant, bowl-shaped hole in ...

A new study reveals that the impact of the Meteor crater may have caused a landslide that flooded the Grand Canyon 56,000 years ago.

In all likelihood, June 30, 1908, began as a normal morning in Siberia. At last, the frozen boreal woods had given way to the thaw of early summer. The dawn was interrupted when a light nearly as ...

WASHINGTON and HOUSTON, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A new paper in Geology led by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, University of Arizona ...

View from the Grand Canyon's South Rim onto Nankoweap Delta. Remnants of a past natural dam created by a landslide are visible on the far side of the Colorado River, just to the left of the dry bed of ...

For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in ...

Researchers suggest the impact that created Arizona's Meteor Crater may have triggered a massive landslide in the Grand Canyon around 56,000 years ago. © Kring 2017 ...

Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...