Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

The Pilbara crater predates these structures by over a billion years, offering a rare glimpse into Earth's formative eons. The ramifications of the Pilbara crater's formation were profound.

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 ...

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It stands to reason, then, that a lack of “truly ancient craters” documented on Earth isn’t the result of sheer luck, but rather the nature of time. Early impact records are scarce thanks to ...

so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth," Professor Johnson said. Researchers discovered the crater thanks to 'shatter cones', distinctive rock formations only formed under ...

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

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 ...

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young. Impact craters this old have the ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth." Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known ...

An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at least 62 miles (100 kilometers) wide was carved after a large space rock struck Earth roughly 3.47 billion years ago, when our planet ...