Did you know that Arizona is home to the world's best-preserved meteorite impact site? The Meteor Crater Natural Landmark is ...

Meteor Crater is one of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet. For years, visitors have wanted access to the bottom. Now for the first time ever, the narrow trail that leads to the bottom of ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Geology proposes that the same asteroid strike that carved Arizona’s Meteor Crater roughly 50,000 years ago also triggered a massive landslide inside the ...

The cataclysmic meteorite impact that wiped the dinosaurs also inadvertently forged a subterranean haven for life, sustaining it for an astonishing eight million years, a new study reveals.

One of the most extraordinary geological features in the continental U.S. is Meteor Crater, which lies 35 miles east of Flagstaff and 18 miles west of Winslow in Arizona’s high desert. The crater is ...

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