The study focused on Earth's craters and highlighted the variability in shapes, including Barringer Crater, which is around 49,000 years old. Meteor Crater, the other name for Barringer Crater ...

These ancient craters provide insights into the violent forces that shaped our planet Also known as Meteor Crater, this ...

Meteor Crater & Barringer Space Museum is located about 40 miles east of downtown Flagstaff. The site is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the winter and from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the summer.

While the Southern Taurids are active between Sept. 23 and Dec. 8, the celestial light show will be most visible Monday and ...

Up next, a third celestial treat named the Orionid meteor shower. Unlike the Northern Lights, which are rare to see around here, or the comet that visits once every 80,000 years, Orionids shows up ...

Orion is belting out a show for Earth. A stunning meteor shower containing traces of the famed Halley’s Comet will pass by Earth with peak viewing opportunities this weekend. The Orionids ...

which formed Meteor Crater in Arizona. The diamonds are sand-grain-sized, only hundredths of an inch across. Other crater-related diamonds are larger. In the 35-mile-wide Popigari crater in ...

October has been a stellar month for celestial events, with comets, a mini-moon, the Draconid meteor shower and the recent supermoon. And now comes the Orionid meteor shower. The Orionid meteor ...

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Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower is coming soon. As many as 50 “shooting stars” per hour are expected to streak ...

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