The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

World’s Oldest Impact Crater Discovered, Toppling Previous Record By 1.3 Billion Years The discovery in Western Australia could be rewriting Earth’s ancient history.

Earth The hunt for hidden impact craters that could reveal Earth’s deep past. Geologist Ludovic Ferrière travels the world in search of undiscovered impact craters left behind by asteroids and ...

Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region and believe it's the oldest impact crater in the world, at about 3.5 billion years old.

Impact craters reveal clues about our solar system's formation. Meteor Crater in Arizona is a well-preserved example, used for astronaut training. The Chicxulub crater in Mexico is linked to the ...

800,000 years ago, a huge meteorite hit Earth. Scientists may have just found where. The missing crater formed in a catastrophic collision that may have scattered debris from China to Antarctica.

The meteorite impact—in Western Australia’s Pilbara region—dates back 3.5 billion years, while the former record-holding impact crater is just 2.2 billion years old.

Scientists from Spain observed and recorded an impact in this crater in September 1993. Ocean of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum): Bigger than the average lunar mare, this has a diameter of 1,611 miles.

“The image of the impact was unlike any I had seen before, with the massive crater, the exposed ice, and the dramatic blast zone preserved in the Martian dust,” said Liliya Posiolova, who ...