The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...

“Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever ...