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 ...

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

While the Southern Taurids already hit their peak last week, the Northern Taurids, active Oct. 13-Dec. 2 will be at their best Monday and Tuesday.

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 ...

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 ...

which formed Meteor Crater in Arizona. The diamonds are sand-grain-sized, only hundredths of an inch across. Other crater-related diamonds are larger. In the 35-mile-wide Popigari crater in ...