"As scientists, we recognize the special nature of the impact crater, but it was also recognized by ancient inhabitants of ...

The impactor formed Vredefort crater, what is today the biggest crater on our planet. Using updated simulation data, University of Rochester researchers discovered the impactor that formed ...

The confirmed ones range from the 200-mile-wide Vredefort crater in South Africa to a piddly little car-size dent in a field near Haviland, Kansas. We only know about that one because it happened ...

Predictably, Vredefort Crater is now a hub of tourism and geologic research. 4. Chicxulub Impact In the most famous cosmic catastrophe known to popular imagination, the Chicxulub Impactor ended the ...