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

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Until now, a crater called Yarrabubba held the title of the oldest meteor strike site. But the Pilbara site - dubbed the "North Pole Crater" - has steamed to the top spot, beating the competition ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University ...

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 billion ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The discovery of the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, dates back 3.5 billion years, significantly older ...

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.