Hellas Planitia: One of the largest impact ... Gale Crater: 3.8 billion-year-old impact crater Gale Crater is the name of a ...

Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known impact crater; it sits in the heart of Western Australia's ancient Pilbara region. An analysis of rock layers in the region suggests a crater at ...

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 ...

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 ...

"A Paleoarchean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia" is published in Nature Communications. The team from Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences investigated rock ...