An investigation is underway after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing in a field west of Flagstaff Wednesday ...

Resolution Copper wants to dig up a massive amount of copper ore beneath Oak Flat inside the Tonto National Forest. And by ...

Some 50,000 years ago, a meteor struck near what is now Flagstaff, Arizona, leaving a 560-foot-deep crater. More recently, an ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu, which showed discoveries about life and the early solar ...

Astronomer Percival Lowell founded his Arizona stargazing lab in 1894 to aid in his search for life on Mars. While that quest is still ...

The new Dinos in the Desert exhibit at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum helps give you a glimpse on how life was during the ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The March 2025 lunar eclipse is happening soon. Here's the date and time you can see it in Phoenix, plus whether it will be visible in totality.

Today, tourists can also visit the site of a more recent cosmic impact, Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona, a ...

Crater 'significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history' A giant crater 2km across and 170m deep, formed by a meteorite, is the location of India's Lonar Lake.

Eyewitnesses reported hearing a "sonic boom" when a meteorite fell in Washington County in late February, according to NASA.

Meteoritics is the study of meteorites — solid parts of asteroids or comets that have landed on another celestial body, notably (but not limited to) the Earth. Measuring the composition of ...