A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park. Geologists studying driftwood and lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the University of New Mexico describes a lake in the Grand Canyon created by a landslide ...

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 ...

Conceptualization of Nankoweap landslide that brought down large boulders of Kaibab Limestone from the cliffs at left and created a geologically short-lived paleolake in Grand Canyon. Geology is full ...

NASA wants to land Artemis astronauts on the moon in 2027, but the scientific instruments they'll bring must be tested on Earth. The best place to do that is a mile-wide meteorite crater in Arizona.

Scientists have discovered living microbes producing methane in the fractured rocks deep inside Sweden's Siljan impact crater ...

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up. A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and ...