The collision of a meteorite in what is now Arizona left an indelible mark: Meteor Crater. At nearly the same time, a massive landslide blocked the Colorado River, creating a temporary lake in ...

A new paper reveals that ground acceleration from moonquakes, rather than meteor impacts, was responsible for shifting lunar ...

This newborn planetary system is emerging around the young star HOPS-315, which sits some 1,300 light years away from Earth. Around such young stars, astronomers often see discs of gas and dust known ...

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 ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott identified the suspect who was the first arrest under the county’s new hate intimidation ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for ...

New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...

For the first time in history, scientists have caught a glimpse of a brand-new solar system just as it begins to form around ...