There, the rock that underlies the Outback is about 4.4 billion years old. Over time, Earth's surface renews itself in a process known as the rock cycle. Old or new, sedimentary or igneous ...

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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.

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Forget traditional drills—engineers are using high-powered microwave beams to vaporize rock, reaching depths ... fuels with an energy source as old as the Earth itself. With climate change ...

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive ... “statistically indistinguishable” from old rock beds in South Africa, according to the study.

The area, a mass of sparse, red rock covered with little ... impact crater was 2.2billion years old, so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth.’ The previous record find ...

Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones ... something hit this region when Earth was young.