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 3.5 billion-year-old crater discovered in Australia may be the cradle of life. Earth's oldest-known crater discovered is ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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