The Guinness World Record for the oldest Earth rock is currently held by the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, which is listed as ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

The reign of T. rex and Co. ended around a measly 66 million years ago, but geologists just discovered that what is now considered the oldest impact crater on Earth is nearly 3.5 billion years old.

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth ... and the craters left behind might have been the place that life on Earth began. The scientists involved were able to identify ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no ... as well as the history of life on Earth. The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million years ago) is the second of Earth ...

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 ...

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 ...

The previous oldest known crater was 2.2 billion years old. It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might have been the ...