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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Curtin University researchers have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

Scientists have identified one of the oldest known impact craters, offering new insights into Earth's formation and early ...

“We know large impacts were common in the early solar system from looking at the moon,” Tim Johnson ... how life may have got started, as impact craters created environments friendly to ...

Impact craters this old have the potential to tell ... relics of the Late Heavy Bombardment are mostly obvious, since the Moon has hardly any weather phenomena (because of the lack of atmosphere ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

The moon itself, with more than a million craters exceeding one kilometer (.62 miles) in diameter, is evidence of "intense bombardment," according to the paper. Impact craters also create friendly ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth ... as they clearly had on our cratered Moon and on other planets, moons and asteroids. Now we and others have the chance to test ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth ... as they clearly had on our cratered moon and on other planets, moons and asteroids. Now we and others have the chance to test ...

Shatter cones within the Antarctic Creek Member (ACM) arenite. Credit: C.L. Kirkland et al. Scientists have long known that the Moon is covered in impact craters from that era, but on Earth, such ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding ... “We know large impacts were common in the early solar system from looking at the Moon,” Tim Johnson, from ...