The largest meteorite ever found on Earth is the Goba meteorite, which weighs an astonishing 66 tons and measures about 3 ...

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 300km in diameter, but has largely eroded away.

Asteroids have pummeled Earth in the past, leaving sizable impact craters and evidence of a once dangerous solar system. Here are some of the largest impact craters found on Earth.

The Vredefort crater was birthed 2 million 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 ...

The world's oldest crater, which is 3 billion years old and measuring more than 62 miles wide, ... At 186 miles (300 km) wide, it's also the largest crater that remains visible.

A study of Greenland's rocks may have turned up something unexpected: the oldest and largest meteorite crater ever found on Earth. Researchers think the crater was formed 3 billion years ago ...

The world's oldest crater, which is 3 billion years old and measuring more than 62 miles wide, ... At 186 miles (300 km) wide, it's also the largest crater that remains visible.

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid crashed near present-day Johannesburg, carving out what is now the world’s largest known crater. The impact initially put a dent in Earth’s surface that ...

The enormous cavity is bigger than London and ranks among the 25 largest impact craters on Earth. Scientists say that the crater was formed after a mile-wide meteorite hit northern Greenland.

They say the crater appears to date to between 270 and 250 million years ago, which, if confirmed, would link it to the world's biggest mass extinction event, where 96 percent of life on Earth was ...

So far as geologists can tell, it's the largest hydrothermal crater on Earth. Mary Bay is more than 1½ miles in diameter — basically, gigantic. Tourists entering the park from Cody, ...