While the Southern Taurids are active between Sept. 23 and Dec. 8, the celestial light show will be most visible Monday and ...

Meteor Crater was created more than 50,000 years ago by a massive meteor strike near Winslow, Arizona. Visitors can experience the 550-foot-deep and nearly mile-wide cavity from an air-conditioned ...

which formed Meteor Crater in Arizona. The diamonds are sand-grain-sized, only hundredths of an inch across. Other crater-related diamonds are larger. In the 35-mile-wide Popigari crater in ...

when a slightly smaller asteroid formed the famed Meteor Crater in Arizona. There’s no way to know what kind of damage the impact did back then, but it’s thought the meteorite itself was ...

As long as the moon and skies are all treats and no tricks, skygazers should have a chance to see the Orionids, one of the year's most striking meteor showers, just in time for Halloween.

Opinions differ on America’s best tourism wonders - The Man Who Pays His Way: Readers have much to say about Florida, New ...

Reference The Taurid meteor shower is composed of two streams known as the Southern Taurids and the Northern Taurids. We explore this impressive shower in more detail here. Reference The Leonid ...

Up next, a third celestial treat named the Orionid meteor shower. Unlike the Northern Lights, which are rare to see around here, or the comet that visits once every 80,000 years, Orionids shows up ...

About 2.2 billion years ago, a massive meteorite left a crater there 43 miles wide. Today, the dusty, red-hued site called Yarrabubba lacks a defined crater - it disappeared due to erosion and ...

Orion is belting out a show for Earth. A stunning meteor shower containing traces of the famed Halley’s Comet will pass by Earth with peak viewing opportunities this weekend. The Orionids ...

If life-sized cartoon characters near the Grand Canyon ... with a force 150 times greater than an atomic bomb. The crater ...

Sieh's team's research offers strong evidence that the crater is buried underground - which explains why researchers couldn't find it before. When a meteorite hits, it super-heats rocks at the ...