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

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.

Imagine a city-sized meteorite crashing into Earth at a staggering speed. That is exactly what happened 3.5 billion years ago ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

So, in May 2021, we began the long drive north from Perth for two weeks of fieldwork in the Pilbara, where we would meet up with our partners from the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA ...

Home to the world’s second largest copper reserves and the eighth largest copper producer globally in 2024, Australia holds ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...