The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

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A massive meteor crater in northern Arizona continues to attract visitors and spark curiosity about space and science, ...

Watch an incredible experiment as we melt a real space meteorite discovered in a scorching hot crater! ☄️🔥 See what happens ...

Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

While this Route 66 attraction in Arizona flies under most passersby's radar, it offers an amazing chance to see an impact ...

Podcaster Show PlayerClassified as the youngest meteor impact site in the world, out of more than 150 known terrestrial impact sites, Meteor Crater, 150 feet above the surrounding plain, measures ...

A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact struck with such force that it carved out a vast crater, later buried ...

But if it hits, the resulting crater could be visible from Earth with the right telescope, and would offer a rare real-time look at how these features form. We’ll know more in 2028, when the ...

Though ignored by the scientific community, his work at Meteor Crater, in Arizona, significantly advanced our understanding of meteorites. photograph by Orin Sealy, The Denver Post ...

Formed approximately 1.4 million years ago by a meteorite impact, the 2.1-mile-wide (3.4 kilometers) crater has an unusually circular shape resulting from a near-vertical strike.