A number of ancient animal carvings were miraculously discovered inside South Africa’s Vredefort Crater, which is the largest confirmed impact crater on earth at 55 miles wide. Scientists believed ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

Predictably, Vredefort Crater is now a hub of tourism and geologic research ... While scientists still debate the role of longer-term climate change, the asteroid’s profound impact on ecosystems is ...

The asteroid that created this crater unleashed energy billions of times more powerful than atomic bombs, resulting in dramatic climate shifts. The Vredefort crater, located in South Africa, holds the ...

An asteroid 12 to 16 miles wide hit the planet more than 2 billion years ago, in what is now Vredefort, South Africa, while another 6 to 10 miles wide hit what is now Sudbury, Ontario 1.85 billion ...

This oldest asteroid impact site, hidden beneath layers of eroded rock ... is now recognized as at least 200 million years older than the Vredefort crater in South Africa, which was previously ...

The asteroid, Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was first spotted by telescopes on Dec. 27, now has a 0.004 percent chance of hitting the planet and is “expected to safely pass… ...

A building-sized asteroid will coincidentally fly by Earth during September’s supermoon and partial lunar eclipse early Wednesday morning, offering a celestial show full of events, and NASA is ...

or the asteroid that hit the Earth in 2013 and injured over 1,600 people in Russia, mostly due to broken glass. The Vredefort impact crater in South Africa is the biggest found on Earth (Picture ...

The Vredefort Crater in South Africa was excavated two billion years ago by an impactor between 10 to 15 km in diameter. But it's not just an asteroid's size that's the problem. They strike Earth with ...

the Vredefort asteroid, and around five times smaller than the rock that wiped out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. However, while any potential impact from 2011 UL21 would be less ...

Discovered in October 2011, the asteroid is larger than 99 percent of near-Earth objects (NEOs), though roughly ten times smaller than the Vredefort asteroid—the largest to ever hit Earth—and ...