This year Route 66, America’s “Mother Road”, turns 100. Running for 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, the world’s ...

I perched on the edge of disaster. Oddly enough, I wanted to laugh, perhaps in a strange effort to reduce the planet’s best ...

Reader's Digest named a historic road that crosses several popular tourist destinations in Arizona as one of the best places to travel in 2026.

This past week, nonagenarian Don Kelsey — a retired educator and handyman — visited Lowell Observatory with family and friends to introduce them to an old friend whose story threads through some of ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Flagstaff is one of the snowiest cities in the U.S., but snowfall amounts can be erratic from year to year. The city's high elevation of 7,000 feet and mountainous terrain are the primary reasons it ...

The Geminid meteor shower is an annual event visible from December 4 through December 17. This year's shower will peak on the night of December 13-14. Unlike most meteor showers which come from comets ...

The 2025 skywatching season is closing out with its biggest display of shooting stars. The Geminid meteor shower peaks this weekend and is known for producing more than 120 bright meteors an hour ...

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known ...

Scientists have discovered a massive asteroid impact crater in China. The bowl-shaped depression is some 900 meters wide—more than eight times the length of a football field. In a paper published last ...

Barringer Crater, also called Meteor Crater, is located in the United States of America (35º 2′ N, 111º 1′ W) in northern Arizona, about 35 miles (55 km) east of the city of Flagstaff. The crater is ...