When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula. But after ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

A recent study from the University of New Mexico has proposed a fascinating theory about the formation of the Grand Canyon.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1992, scientists found the "smoking gun:" the roughly 120-mile-wide (200 kilometers) Chicxulub crater off of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Then in 2013, a meteor the size of a semitrailer breached ...

One of the best parts of a road trip is the journey itself—the unexpected stops, detours, and side adventures along the way. On our recent trip to Grand Canyon National Park, we made time for a few ...