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 ...

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 ...

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of ... Collaborator Dr. Veronica Bray of the University ...

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 horns mounted on the front of Intuitive Machines' Moon RACER drivable demo unit are for Earth-based show only, as is the ...

"This would directly link a specific asteroid in space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed of lunar material yet to be discovered in near ...

which formed Meteor Crater in Arizona. The diamonds are sand-grain-sized, only hundredths of an inch across. Other crater-related diamonds are larger. In the 35-mile-wide Popigari crater in ...

They cannot date the event exactly, or say whether it came before or after the asteroid which left the 180km-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. That one ended the reign of the dinosaurs. But they ...

The Meteor Crater Education Alliance (MCEA) will be hosting its first fundraising event, Crater Challenge 2024, on Saturday, Nov. 2. Participants can choose one of two options for a 2 1/2-mile ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. Here are some of the most baffling.

Arizona’s Native American history and ... Visitors travel from all over the place to see the mile-wide crater that an asteroid made over 50,000 years ago. You can hike on trails near Route ...