A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, new study says - The study dives into questions surrounding how and when driftwood in Stanton’s Cave in the Grand Canyon got there ...

A new paper in Geology led by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, University of Arizona Senior Research Specialist Chris Baisan, and Dr. David ...

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 Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring many. The Tunguska event ...

For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath Mexico’x Yucatan Peninsula. But new research has revealed that there were at ...

The asteroid that created the Chicxulub Crater — the impact that is said to have wiped out the dinosaurs — in the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have been roughly 7.4-miles across and ...

However, it is smaller than the Chicxulub crater buried under Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, which measures around 112 miles (180 km) in diameter and was left by the dinosaur-killing asteroid that ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published by researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The images confirm the 9km Nadir Crater ...

African Crater Adds an Asteroid ... it may have formed not long before or after Chicxulub — the 100-mile-wide chasm under the Gulf of Mexico excavated by a six-mile-long asteroid that ...

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