Our study concludes the impact actually happened much later, sometime after 2.7 billion years ago. This is at least 800 million years younger than the earlier estimate (and we think it's probably ...

This would have made it the oldest impact crater on Earth by more than a billion years, eclipsing the 2.23-billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure, also located in Australia.

At present, the oldest known (and agreed on) ancient impact crater is the 2.23-billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure in Western Australia. This is pretty damned old, but finding something older ...

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.

The second-oldest impact crater, estimated to have been created about 2.2 billion years ago, is also located in Western Australia, southwest of Pilbara, in Yarrabubba.

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia, according to new research reported in Nature Communications. The crater was made about ...

Map showing location of Nadir Crater and seismic and well dataset. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01700-4 New images of an asteroid impact crater buried ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia. It has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost literally Earth ...

So far, nobody has found an impact crater older than the 2.23-billion-year-old Yarrabubba structure, also in Australia. (Some of the authors from both 2025 Pilbara studies were co-authors on the ...

The impact had to occur after the formation of the youngest rocks that contained shatter cones, meaning sometime after the 2.77-billion-year-old lavas. At the moment, we don’t know precisely how ...