In the past, Arizona was once hit by a giant, catastrophic asteroid. Just so we're clear, that was way back in the ...

Some, like Arizona's 49,000-year-old Barringer ... So it may seem intuitive that a spinning asteroid would gouge out a deeper crater than a non-spinning one. Related: World's 1st mountaintop ...

XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.

An asteroid that fell to Earth and exploded above Canada in 2022 was only around 20 inches wide — the smallest space rock ...

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 ...

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 ...

The impactor—most likely an asteroid—formed what is today the biggest crater on the planet. Scientists have widely accepted, based on previous research, that the impact structure, known as the ...