Arizona's Meteor Crater and other scars leftover from collisions with space rocks continue to serve up their secrets. Meteor Crater formed some 50,000 years ago. It represents the best preserved ...

Move over Grand Canyon, because this hole in the ground was ranked the best roadside attraction in the nation. Here's why it ...

WINSLOW, Az. — Located between Flagstaff and Winslow, you’ll come across the world’s best-preserved meteor crater. Known as the Barringer Crater, it’s the first proven meteor crater on Earth and it ...

It was a warm afternoon approximately 50,000 years ago in a desolate landscape in what would be later known as Northern Arizona when something monumental occurred. A giant ground sloth looked up into ...

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 ...

Arizona’s Meteor Crater remains the best-preserved meteorite impact site on Earth. Despite being studied for over a century, recent scientific research in 2025 and 2026 has uncovered surprising new ...

A video showcasing an incredible view of a meteorite site formed around 50,000 years ago has gone viral on TikTok. The footage was captured by a hiker on TikTok known as @blackhikingqueen and has ...

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 ...

The iron meteorite that blasted out Meteor Crater almost 50,000 years ago was traveling much slower than has been assumed, University of Arizona Regents’ Professor H. Jay Melosh and Gareth Collins of ...

Researchers continue to extract fresh scientific findings from Barringer Meteorite Crater in Arizona, a bowl-shaped depression carved by a space rock roughly 50,000 to 60,000 years ago. Recent ...