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For this week's edition of Drone Zone, we head to Winslow to check out the Meteor Crater. It was formed 50,000 years ago, and ...

A 17-year-old Odessa resident who admitted he sold fentanyl pills to another teenager who later died has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Ector County... PECOS A federal grand jury in Pecos ...

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

The unknown suspects stole from a business in the 1500 block of E. 2nd St. CNN found liable for defaming security contractor in Afghanistan story Chiefs' Travis Kelce reveals when he plans to ...

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy crater. A SpaceX launch later this month will send a new type of lunar ...

Curious about the dust the homeowners checked the video footage from their security camera and saw an astounding moment - a rock that appeared to be a meteorite falling from space and crash ...

small chunks of the meteorite (which have been sent for testing), and a 2cm crater in the asphalt. The video above (courtesy of the homeowners and University of Alberta Meteorite Collection ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater ... debris falls back to Earth after a meteorite impact and quickly cools down ...

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater. When you purchase through ...

Barbie Hsu, a Taiwanese actor and singer best known for starring in the hit 2001 series “Meteor Garden,” has died. She was 48. The BBC reported news of Hsu’s death on Monday, citing local media.