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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

this is a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth." Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region.