In a surprising twist, two of Arizona’s most iconic landmarks—Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon—may be linked by a cosmic ...

The researchers were fascinated by a landslide that formed a paleolake and an asteroid impact that carved a massive crater, ...

This surprising connection between Arizona's world-renowned geological features stretches back 56,000 years, to when a ...

Learn more about the Meteor Crater near the Grand Canyon and how it may have created a paleolake thousands of years ago.

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a landslide-dammed lake and a paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon. Earth’s ancient ...

New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...

A new study suggests a meteor strike that created Arizona’s Meteor Crater 56,000 years ago may have triggered a massive ...

The paper suggests that a dam created a 50-mile-long, 300-foot-deep paleolake with beavers' tracks in caves above the river, indicating a significant geological event possibly related to Barringer ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact ...

New research reveals that a meteorite strike near Winslow, Arizona, approximately 56,000 years ago, may have triggered a ...

A new study suggests ancient wood floated into a cave far above the Colorado River when a meteorite-induced earthquake ...