Chelyabinsk Meteor Compared to ancient giant impacts ... was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005. Predictably, Vredefort Crater is now a hub of tourism and geologic research. 4. Chicxulub ...

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP ...

The Vredefort crater in South Africa ... Thomas Davison of Imperial College London ran computer simulations of an asteroid 7 kilometers wide crashing into an ice-covered Earth at 17 kilometers ...

The Sikhote-Alin meteorite remains a fascinating chapter in the story of Earth’s encounters with cosmic visitors. The Vredefort Crater Earth’s Largest Impact Structure The Vredefort Crater: Earth’s ...

The largest meteorite crater in the world, to be sure. So large, in fact, that it’s almost impossible to recognize it for what it is. Many people living in the small town of Vredefort don’t even know ...

Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) Analysing the age of the Yarrabubba meteor crater in Australia ... "It's 200 million years older than the previously oldest known crater, which was the over 200-kilometre ...

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life return.

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4 shifted its course from Earth but brought ... Moon would generate an extraordinary event visible across Earth, which could form a lunar crater measuring 1 kilometre across.

Nasa's Lucy spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing its unexpectedly large and irregular bowling pin shape, measuring approximately 5 miles long.

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...