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.

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region. An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at ...

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 billion years ago. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists in Australia say ...

An international team of scientists has identified the oldest asteroid impact site ever to scar our planet’s surface. The body that formed the Yarrabubba crater in the Western Australian outback ...

Discovery and ancient beliefs -- Anatomy of a crater -- A meteoritic footprint -- How was Wolfe Creek Crater formed? -- Australia's impact record. The crater map of Australia -- Why formed by a ...

The Yarrabubba impact structure in remote Western Australia is the oldest known asteroid crater on Earth, according to a study published yesterday (January 21) in Nature Communications. At 2.229 ...

For Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Shoemaker Impact Structure (formerly known as Teague Ring) in Western Australia. Located around 100 km northeast of the small town ...

When we gaze out into our solar system and observe its several planets and many moons, one thing tends to be true of just about all of them: They have lots and lots of impact craters. Each of those ...

There are 70,000 meteorites — pieces of debris from space objects that hit Earth — known to scientists. But only 190 of them left behind impact craters scientists could identify. According to a study ...