The destructive space rock was somewhere between 12.4 and 15.5 miles wide. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The largest asteroid ...

Vredefort Dome, approximately 120 km south-west of Johannesburg, is a representative part of a larger meteorite impact structure, or astrobleme. Dating back 2,023 million years, it is the oldest ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

A team of five scientists from the University of the Free State is about to undertake research into the destruction caused by the Vredefort Crater meteorite. The ancient meteorite could hold clues ...

The impactor that formed the Vredefort crater, Earth’s largest, about two billion years ago, was probably much bigger than previously believed—and would have had devastating consequences, a new study ...

Researchers developed a more accurate simulation of the impact that formed Earth's largest crater -- Vredefort crater -- nearly two billion years ago. They found the impactor (most likely an asteroid) ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In its 4.5 billion-year existence, Earth has been punched and gouged by hundreds of large ...

To better define the length scale of the dispersion, we compared the magnetization directions between two samples cut from the same core for 34 cores (68 AF demagnetized samples). The average angular ...

c) Lack of tourism management, particularly access. On 29 January 2009, a comprehensive report on the state of conservation of the property was submitted by the State Party to the World Heritage ...