The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...
Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation ...
Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...
The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.
We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...
Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...
The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.
Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...
Australian scientists have uncovered Earth's oldest meteorite impact crater, dating back 3.5 billion years, shattering old ...
THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.