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

Scientists in Australia have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures created by the blast in the rock. Hidden away in the country's outback, the ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

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

An ancient impact structure in remote northern Australia was recently spotted by one of NASA's Earth-observing satellite ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

Scientists in Australia say they’ve found the world’s oldest impact crater, surpassing the previous ... oldest known fossilized photosynthetic structures, which date back 1.75 billion years ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

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 ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

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.

Shatter cones are beautiful, delicate branching structures, not dissimilar to ... 4WDs and stepped onto the floor of a huge, ancient impact crater. Frustratingly, after taking some photographs ...