Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Scientists have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could reshape understanding of the origins ...

Scientists initially proposed two possibilities. Either the meteorite entered in an extremely unusual way, or it was moved by ...

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

The Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for years, but it's never found an otherworldly object quite like this one until now.

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

A new study highlights the striking coincidence in the geologic ages of the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona and a landslide dam that blocked the Colorado River, forming a paleolake in the Grand Canyon ...

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 ...

View from the Grand Canyon's South Rim onto Nankoweap Delta. Remnants of a past natural dam created by a landslide are visible on the far side of the Colorado River, just to the left of the dry bed of ...

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