The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way scientists view the history of Earth ...

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.

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

Scientists in Australia say they’ve found the world’s oldest impact crater, surpassing the previous record-holder’s age by more than 1.25 billion years. The meteorite impact—in Western ...

A video circulating on social media shows a blast in an empty plot, creating a large crater resembling an underground explosion.

which are large, stable landmasses that became the foundation of continents.” A study describing the findings, ‘A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia’, is ...

An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at least 62 miles (100 kilometers) wide was carved after a large space rock struck Earth roughly 3.47 billion years ago, when our planet ...

In addition, the Pilbara crater sheds new light on how meteorites ... have even contributed to the formation of cratons, which are large, stable landmasses that became the foundation of continents ...

The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.