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

About 220,000 years ago, a meteor slammed into a corner of South Africa creating the Tswaing Crater. Today, it's a hotbed of wildlife and exotic vegetation, drawing tourists from all over the world.

An asteroid that size ... 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.

From lava flows to impact craters and fossil beds, this is a country where rock formations tell stories more powerful than ...

A crater at the edge ... was found near the coast of West Africa. Researchers have speculated that it might have been made by a piece that broke off the Chicxulub asteroid. Receive a weekly ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden ...

The Yarrabubba impact structure in remote Western Australia is the oldest known asteroid crater on Earth ... At 2.229 billion years old, the Yarrabubba crater is older than both the Vredefort Dome in ...

Earlier this month, Japan’s space agency JAXA launched an explosive projectile at the space rock known as Ryugu from its Hayabusa2 asteroid probe. Japan wanted to blow a crater into the surface ...

In August 2024, astronomers in South Africa ... By studying the asteroid's composition, they hope to tie the material back to its source and perhaps even identify its parent crater.