Evidence in local rock indicates the collision happened around 3.47 billion years ago, easily exceeding the age of any other documented crater. Older research pointed to a 2.2-billion-year example ...

What could be the world's oldest-known impact crater has been discovered in the remote north-west of Australia. The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created ...

Researchers in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, pushing back the previous record by more than one billion years. The newly ...

Australian scientists have identified the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, a discovery that could transform our understanding of Earth’s early history and the origins of life ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - After months of waiting, residents on Jennings road in Cleveland can finally drive to work without delay. It’s the 3rd time the city of Cleveland had to fix the hole ...

Scientists know that Earth was hit by many meteorites, but most impact craters disappeared over time. A team of scientists from Curtin University has found the oldest known meteorite impact crater in ...

"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," study co-author Tim Johnson, a professor in the school of ...

Crater 'significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history' A giant crater 2km across and 170m deep, formed by a meteorite, is the location of India's Lonar Lake ...

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The bottoms of hundreds of craters at the moon's South Pole, for instance, are permanently shadowed and may hold patches of ice. Some water also may be locked inside broken rock and dust on the ...