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 ...

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

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

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

For some people, the significance of Lake Bosumtwi goes beyond geology. Sacred to some members of the local villages, its ...

YR4 was detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS telescope, in Río Hurtado, Chile, two days ...

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 ...

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

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