The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth and the planet's stages of evolution.

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region. This ancient structure, dating back approximately ...

Until now, a crater called Yarrabubba held the title of the oldest meteor strike site. But the Pilbara site - dubbed the "North Pole Crater" - has steamed to the top spot, beating the competition ...

the remains of Arizona’s great meteorite. Just west of T. W. A.’s transcontinental stop at Winslow, Meteor Crater is about 4.000 ft. in diameter, 570 ft. deep from the lip of the rim to the ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University ...

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.

Its staggering depth—reaching over 5,300 feet (1,600 meters)—holds more water than all of North America’s Great ... meteor slammed into Siberia millions of years ago, gouging out an enormous ...

Earth’s oldest meteorite impact crater was just found in WA’s Pilbara region – exactly where geologists hoped it would be. We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very ...