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 ...

PHOENIX- Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon almost 50 years ago on July 20th, 1969. What some don’t know is that some of the preparation for Apollo 11 occurred right here in Arizona. The ...

Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Mary Robinette Kowal, who created alternate-history astronauts in her Lady Astronaut series of books, will lead an all-star cast of speakers in ...

A recent study from the University of New Mexico has proposed a fascinating theory about the formation of the Grand Canyon. The research suggests that the Meteor Crater impact, which occurred ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the northern Arizona desert, an imposing-looking crater shows the impact of an ancient meteor crash. Until the 1960s, it was mistakenly ...

In 1891, America’s first Chief Geologist, G.K. Gilbert — working for J.W. Powell, of Grand Canyon fame — rode his horse through the forests of the San Francisco Peaks. He was surveying volcanic cinder ...

Those who've poked along the old, cross-country Route 66 through the American Southwest in Arizona might have accidentally driven by, or perhaps spotted, what looks like a giant, bowl-shaped hole in ...