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 ...

Nordlingen is no ordinary German town. With its red roofs, church towers, and ring of ancient walls, it wears its medieval ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and demonized in major Hollywood productions over the relatively limited number that have caused ...

In September 2025, an X post (archived) viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video and claim ...