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.

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 ...

(Picture: Curtin University) Scientists believe a newly-discovered crater believed to be the oldest ... Experts now think a major meteorite smacked into it 3.5billion years ago, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curtin University Researchers have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater known to science in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The feature is more than one billion years older than the ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater thanks to pristine structures created by the blast in the rock. Hidden away in the country's outback, the ...

Crater 'significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history' A giant crater 2km across and 170m deep, formed by a meteorite, is the location of India's Lonar Lake.