Meteor Crater in Arizona will begin offering guided hikes to the crater floor starting in May. The trail follows the same path Apollo astronauts used to train for moon landings. These advanced hikes ...

Meteor Crater in Arizona will begin offering guided hikes to the crater floor starting in May. The trail follows the same path Apollo astronauts used to train for moon landings. These advanced hikes ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

China has quietly confirmed that a vast circular scar in its northeast is not a volcanic basin or a quirk of erosion, but a colossal asteroid impact site that ranks as the largest known crater of its ...

In a state that contains the likes of the Grand Canyon and the Sedona red rocks, Meteor Crater is still one of Arizona’s coolest natural wonders. Also called Barringer Crater, it’s an impact crater ...

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important natural laboratories on the planet. The Jinlin crater, a vast bowl gouged into ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...