Earlier this year, researchers announced the discovery of what they believed to be the world’s oldest impact crater.

A bold claim about Earth’s earliest known meteorite impact has been reevaluated after new evidence emerged from the Pilbara ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

The first convincing evidence of a massive meteorite impact that occurred 2.63 billion years ago has been found in northwestern Australia's Pilbara region. Some scientists have long suspected that ...

Abstract Aerial Art/Getty Images (AUSTRALIA) — The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the ...

Scientists have discovered Earth's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Australia's Pilbara region, dating back an astonishing 3.47 billion years—makin ...

New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

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 ...

Researchers might have uncovered what is believed to be the earliest evidence of a meteorite's impact on Earth. In rocks from 3.48 billion years ago, researchers have discovered structures ...