Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...
The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...
The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.
Geologists have discovered the world’s oldest known impact crater, located in the heart of the ancient Pilbara region of ...
Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...
"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 ...
A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...