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

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

The Grand Canyon, one of the most iconic geological formations on Earth, may hold deeper secrets about our planet’s history ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

Spanning three quarters of a mile and almost 600 feet deep, Meteor Crater was blasted by a nickel-iron meteorite roughly the ...

Cutting‑edge dating reveals driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves 55,250 years ago when a meteor’s shock wave blocked and ...

The study dives into questions surrounding how and when driftwood in Stanton’s Cave in the Grand Canyon got there ...

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River ...

When an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater. According to new research, the earthquake that the collision caused induced a ...

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 ...

Researchers have found a link between two geological events in iconic locations of the U.S. Southwest that scientists ...