In addition, the Pilbara crater sheds new light on how meteorites shaped the ... The impact could have kicked up rock deep beneath the earth that eventually spread globally as the meteorite strike ...

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

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 billion years ago ...

A team of Australian scientists from Curtin University uncovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact site—a 3.47 billion-year-old crater in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. The ...

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

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

The force subsequently generated a 62-mile-wide crater that ejected debris into ... or by forcing magma to rise from deep within the Earth’s mantle toward the surface.” There’s even a ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

The previous oldest known crater was 2.2 billion years old ... or by forcing magma to rise from deep within the Earth's mantle toward the surface. “It may have even contributed to the formation ...

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

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young. Impact craters this old have the ...