Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

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

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

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

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

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

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth's first continents. The very first rocks The oldest rocks on ...

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

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.

World's oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth's ancient history. ScienceDaily . Retrieved March 17, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250306122924.htm ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...