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 ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are ...

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 ...

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 ...

James Turrell discusses his ongoing land art piece, Roden Crater, created within a pit formed by an extinct volcano in the Arizona desert. ART21: Where are we, right now? TURRELL: Well, right now ...

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 ...

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 ...

After a couple of practice hops, Grace will then try something unprecedented—entering a permanently shadowed moon crater. The team is targeting a small crater about 200 meters from the landing ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the latest instalment of his weekly diary, our hero Fabien McQuillan goes down a hole and gets ready for a battle with ...