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

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell us not only how Earth evolved but how the earliest impacts created the conditions for life to emerge. Long before the asteroid that ended the ...

"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 ...

An impact crater that was made by an asteroid millions of years ago was discovered in a remote hillside of China this year. Scientists have since been studying the massive hole and have concluded ...

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 ...