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

Meteor Crater and Lowell Observatory invite the public to observe the unique benchmark with a day of educational activities.

Could New York face an asteroid threat in our lifetime? Scientists explain potential impact scenarios, emergency preparedness ...

On his first trip to the Grand Canyon Star Party, Dave Eicher joins thousands for a week of lectures, observing, and cosmic ...

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

This asteroid is one of the most likely to hit Earth. Here’s what it means for our future. New ultraprecise measurements show that the asteroid Bennu has a higher chance than thought of ...

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2, is at ...

Tonto Group of the Grand Canyon. In 1945, Grand Canyon geologist Edwin McKee proposed that a single, steady rise in sea level turned a flat North American shoreline into a shallow sea. He pictured ...

An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our neck of space in 2032.. The good news? It's not coming for Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer visible, but NASA squeezed in one ...

Buried Clues From Earth’s Most Explosive Evolutionary Chapter. The Tonto Group, a sequence of rock layers visible along the Grand Canyon’s lower walls, was long believed to represent a gradual and ...

June 7, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.