Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.
A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, a new study has found. While many Americans are familiar with the Grand Canyon’s beauty and uniqueness, they may not be aware of the story ...
Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have also caused the formation of an ancient lake in the Grand Canyon. This ...
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Microbes learned to thrive in an ancient meteor impact crater and mineral formations were the end result
Far-reaching implications for the possibilities of life on other planets!
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Evidence from a newly-discovered impact crater demonstrates the sheer force of Holocene-epoch meteor strikes
They're stronger and more impactful than we ever knew.
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.
When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout Earth's history and still occur on other planetary bodies today. While most ...
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., Canada and Italy has found that studying the craters on asteroid Bennu allowed them to calculate how long it has been orbiting ...
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