Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...

‘This study provides a crucial piece of the puzzle of Earth’s impact history and suggests there may be many other ancient craters that could be discovered over time.’ Professor Chris ...

Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was ... most likely from a crater that has now been destroyed. An approximately one metre tall shatter cone ‘hut’, with the rolling hills of the Pilbara in the ...

There’s no gaping crater. Billions of years of geology at work through erosion and sedimentation has made this ancient impact invisible — but there are subtle signs it happened. The primary ...

Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest known meteorite crater in Australia, revealing clues about Earth’s early history and the role of cosmic collisions. Scientists in Australia have identified ...

Discovery of Ancient Crater Geologists have identified the world’s oldest known impact crater in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater, estimated to be at least 100 kilometres wide, was ...

(Web Desk) - 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 ...

What could be the world's oldest-known impact crater has been discovered in the remote north-west of Australia. The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth ... cone ‘hut’, with the rolling hills of the Pilbara in the background. With some laboratory research under our belts, we ...

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 ...

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region. An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at ...