Keep in mind that high winds occasionally cancel the popular mile-long guided rim tour. Meteor Crater & Barringer Space Museum is located about 40 miles east of downtown Flagstaff. The site is ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...

The second biggest is the Chicxulub crater on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, which is 180 km (112 miles) wide, and created by a 12 km (7.5-mile) asteroid around 66 million years ago. This is the ...