The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Researchers Baffled To Find World's Oldest Impact Crater, Redefines How Our Planet Was Shaped Land features reflect the ...

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon or other solid body in the Solar System, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body with the ...

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

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

View of the discovery site of the oldest impact crater in Western Australia. Credit: Curtin University Imagine a city-sized meteorite crashing into Earth at a staggering speed. That is exactly what ...

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 ...