Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Meteor craters are incredible reminders of the powerful forces of nature and the history of our planet. These massive impact sites are created when asteroids or comets collide with Earth, leaving ...

Impact craters occur on every planetary body in our Solar System, no matter the size. By studying impact craters and the meteorites that cause them, we can learn about the processes and the geology ...

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The largest impact crater on Earth, the Vredefort crater in South Africa, is 99 miles (160 km) wide and was likely created about 2 billion years ago, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

The Vredefort impact structure is the biggest confirmed crater on Earth and is roughly 2 billion years old. The original crater was thought to be up to 186 miles (300 km) in diameter, but has ...

The oldest impact crater on Earth is also the largest. Vredefort crater in South Africa, also called the Vredefort Dome, was originally 185 miles (300 kilometers) across, scientists estimate.

This week NASA released two images that compare recentimpact craters on the Moon and Earth. Each has a resolution of about 6 feet (2meters) per pixel, and illumination is from the right.

A 2-billion-year-old crater may sound ancient, but that only accounts for half of Earth’s history. Cratering has occurred since the beginning of the solar system, appearing on the surface of ...

The study looked at the ways Earth erosion affects existing craters and concluded that the current count of 70 craters larger than 6 km (3.7 miles) in diameter should be just about right.

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time.