Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high velocity. This leaves an excavated circular hole in the Earth's surface.

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

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

Mount Thor, also known as Thor Peak, is a mountain in Nunavut, Canada with the largest vertical drop in the world — a ...

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

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

Tonight, the skies over Pretoria will come alive with the dazzling display of the Perseid meteor shower, an extraordinary ...

It sold for more than the maximum estimated price of $4 million. On Wednesday (July 16), the largest Mars meteorite on Earth was auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York City for $4.3 million. (Extra ...

I made a list of 11 cities in Alabama that are the definition of “eccentric,” meaning “unconventional” or “quirky,” in the ...

When an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater. According to new research, the earthquake that the collision caused induced a ...

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

Located just outside Odessa, Texas, this ancient crater marks one of only two confirmed meteorite impact sites in the country ...