The drive to Meteor Crater takes you through quintessential Arizona landscape – endless horizons, scattered juniper and pinyon pines, and that particular shade of rusty orange soil that seems to exist ...

When it comes to famous holes in the ground, northern Arizona has two: Grand Canyon and Barringer Meteorite Crater. New ...

Standing at the edge of Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona feels like peering into another world—a massive bowl carved into the Earth by a visitor from space that arrived with the subtlety of a ...

Skywatchers in Arizona, the moment you’ve waited all year for is here. The biggest meteor shower of 2025 is reaching an epic climax this week, sending dozens of shooting stars streaking across the ...

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A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and ...

Conceptual illustration of the Nankoweap landslide, which sent massive Kaibab Limestone boulders down from the left cliffs, briefly damming the Grand Canyon. Karl Karlstrom Via EurekAlert Research ...

Conceptualization of Nankoweap landslide that brought down large boulders of Kaibab Limestone from the cliffs at left and created a geologically short-lived paleolake in Grand Canyon. Geology is full ...

WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...

The largest egg producer in the southwest is still trying to recover after a bird flu outbreak this year. The bird flu wiped out most of the chickens at Hickman's in Buckeye. Gila County officials ...

The Lyrid meteor shower will peak on the night of April 21 and 22, 2025. The best time to view the Lyrids is from midnight to dawn, looking toward the northeastern sky. No telescope is needed to see ...

Step into the heart of one of Earth’s best-preserved impact sites—Arizona’s Meteor Crater. Formed over 50,000 years ago by a fiery space rock, this colossal landmark is a stunning reminder of our ...