In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western ...

Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

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Evidence in local rock indicates the collision happened around 3.47 billion years ago, easily exceeding the age of any other documented crater. Older research pointed to a 2.2-billion-year example ...

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