The ancient crater’s discovery in the Pilbara suggests meteorite impacts may have kickstarted Earth's first continents, and ...

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

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

This discovery challenges our understanding of Earth’s early history and could shed light on the origins of life.

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

Resolution Copper wants to dig up a massive amount of copper ore beneath Oak Flat inside the Tonto National Forest. And by ...

Researchers in Western Australia believe an asteroid struck the Pilbara region 3.57 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

Scientists found Earth’s oldest impact crater, 3.5 billion years old, in Western Australia. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite ...

A bright, flaming object was spotted and photographed in the skies over Nicosia on Thursday afternoon, with the Cyprus Astronomy Organisation speculating a possible a meteor sighting.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region. This ancient structure, dating back approximately ...

In Western Australia’s Pilbara region ... which provide unmistakable proof of meteorite strikes. Their diameter is measured to be about 35 kilometres, and it surpasses the older crater known as the ...

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...