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 ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact ...

This means the impactor that formed the Vredefort crater would have been larger than the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, forming the Chicxulub crater.

The Vredefort crater, which is located around 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of Johannesburg, currently measures about 99 miles (159 km) in diameter, making it the biggest visible crater on ...

At roughly 62 miles (100 kilometers) in diameter, the Vredefort crater, located near the present-day city of Johannesburg, South Africa, is the largest and oldest-known impact crater on the planet.

It’s called the Vredefort Crater, and it’s Earth’s largest confirmed impact crater. The Vredefort impactor struck Earth about 2 billion years ago during the Paleoproterozoic Era and is now ...

Today, the Vredefort crater looks nothing like its bowl shape during its formation and certainly not the site of a catastrophic global event. Heavy erosion has left only a portion of its ring ...

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.

University of Rochester 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 ...

The researchers describe in the paper how they studied the Vredefort crater in South Africa, one of the world's oldest known impact craters, measuring around 186 miles across.

These rings make up the Vredefort Dome, a 43-mile-wide (70 km) area of uplift where the ground rebounded after the hit. But the full crater, which has eroded away, was much larger, perhaps as ...

The Vredefort crater was birthed 2 billion years ago when the largest asteroid ever to hit Earth impacted the planet. A new study suggests the gargantuan space rock was even bigger than previously ...