Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

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

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

The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

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

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River ...

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

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