Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

when a slightly smaller asteroid formed the famed Meteor Crater in Arizona. There’s no way to know what kind of damage the impact did back then, but it’s thought the meteorite itself was ...

For one camper, a quick browse on Google Maps led to the discovery of what appears to be a meteor crater. Researchers are ...

"We think the water came from the melting of nearby sub-surface ice called permafrost, and that the permafrost melting was ...

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater there 43 miles wide. Today, the dusty, red-hued site called Yarrabubba lacks a defined crater - it disappeared due to erosion and ...

There, hidden under the ice, is a massive impact crater that was just waiting to ... happened less than three million years ago, and the meteorite was over half a mile wide, according to the ...

Scientists think the time has come for a full geophysical survey of The Minch, to see if the Scottish strait is hiding an ancient meteorite crater. The idea that such a structure lies between the ...

Sieh's team's research offers strong evidence that the crater is buried underground - which explains why researchers couldn't find it before. When a meteorite hits, it super-heats rocks at the ...