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

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

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

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

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

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

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

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.

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

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

“On Earth, this early impact record has seemingly been lost, reflecting the destructive efficiency of erosion and subduction ...