Beneath East Antarctica’s thick ice lies the Wilkes Land anomaly — a possible meteorite impact crater over 500 km wide. This ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the ...

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

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

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of the study. "The resulting meteor shower could be eye-catching, with meteor ...

This surprising connection between Arizona's world-renowned geological features stretches back 56,000 years, to when a ...

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

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

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

A new study suggests a meteor strike that created Arizona’s Meteor Crater 56,000 years ago may have triggered a massive ...