Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

But these drops could have travelled across the globe from a giant impact anywhere on Earth, most likely from a crater that has now been destroyed. After consulting the GSWA maps and aerial ...

It stands to reason, then, that a lack of “truly ancient craters” documented on Earth isn’t the result of sheer luck, but rather the nature of time. Early impact records are scarce thanks to ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

The authors say findings could provide a new line of study into Earth's ... signs of craters, including at North Pole Dome. Professor Johnson said the next step would be to map out the shatter ...

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young. Impact craters this old have the ...

The crater, located near the Pilbara town of Marble Bar, is thought to have been created 3.47 billion years ago.