Loosely-bound clumpy asteroids with curveball-like spins may have scooped out some of Earth's most distinctly shaped craters, including Arizona's bowl-like Barringer Crater, a study published Nov ...

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

For those keen on seeing the incredible impacts of some of the largest meteorites, Barringer Crater, located 18 miles west of Winslow and caused by a 150-foot-wide, iron-nickel meteorite some 50,000 ...

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.

Elizabeth Howell Barringer Crater is nested in the Arizona desert ... and is believed to have been caused by an iron-nickel meteorite, about 130 feet (40 meters) wide. Monday, July 1, 2024 ...

"This would directly link a specific asteroid in space to its source crater on the Moon and suggests the existence of more small asteroids composed of lunar material yet to be discovered in near ...

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 ...

The impact left a 124-mile-wide crater underneath the Gulf of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. And, until now, it had been assumed that the asteroid acted alone. This week, scientists at Scotland ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

Reference The Taurid meteor shower is composed of two streams known as the Southern Taurids and the Northern Taurids. We explore this impressive shower in more detail here. Reference The Leonid ...