Geologists Found the World’s Oldest Crater—and It Might Have Jumpstarted All Life on Earth
Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...
Earth's oldest impact crater was just found in Australia—exactly where geologists hoped it would be
We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
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An Asteroid Won’t Destroy Life on Earth in 2032, but It Will Eventually
It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...
3.5 billion-year-old crater created by meteorite impact found in Australia, scientists say
The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...
Earth’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia
It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...
Scientists find the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it rewrites the history of our planet
It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...
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Scientists discover Earth's oldest impact crater in Australia
This week, geologists announced they discovered the world's oldest known impact crater. It's in Western Australia's ancient ...
World's oldest meteorite impact crater found, rewriting Earth's ancient history
Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...
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World's oldest impact crater may be linked to the origins of life
Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...
Huge Impact Crater in Australia Breaks Record for World’s Oldest by Over a Billion Years
A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...
Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds
The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.
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Scientists discover Earth's oldest impact crater in Australia
"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 ...