Coon Butte or Barring Crater near Winslow, Arizona, is 4,150 feet wide and 575 feet deep. Subscribe to stay connected to Tucson. A subscription helps you access more of the local stories that keep you ...

Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have also caused the formation of an ancient lake in the Grand Canyon. This ...

WINSLOW, AZ (AZFamily) — An asteroid hit the Earth in what is now known as northern Arizona about 50,000 years ago. It left a giant crater that draws people from all over the world. Nestled between ...

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 ...

“Five miles to impact,” said our oldest son, Jack. He was reading one of a series of signs along I-40 just outside of Winslow, Arizona, counting down the miles to Meteor Crater Natural Landmark. Maybe ...

Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic waves rippling ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...

Located just outside Odessa, Texas, this ancient crater marks one of only two confirmed meteorite impact sites in the country ...