W hen an asteroid made Meteor Crater in northern Arizona, it did more than leave the Earth’s best preserved impact crater.

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

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.

“Before our discovery, the oldest impact crater was 2.2 billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth,” Professor Johnson said.

New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by researchers at Heriot-Watt University. The images confirm the 9km Nadir ...

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 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 ...

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but geologists aren't sure exactly when this happened.

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 ...

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 ...