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 ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Earth is still collecting scars from space, and scientists are only now learning to read them properly. Newly mapped impact ...

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park. Geologists studying driftwood and lake ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

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 ...

Researchers suggest the impact that created Arizona's Meteor Crater may have triggered a massive landslide in the Grand Canyon around 56,000 years ago. © Kring 2017 ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Metallic gray sample of an iron meteor from Odessa Crater site in the southwestern part of Ector County, Texas, that ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout Earth's history and still occur on other planetary bodies today. While most ...