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

[Xinhua] BEIJING - Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest and largest impact crater on the moon, the South Pole ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

The crater is located in Western Australia's Pilbara region, which is home to some of Earth's oldest rocks. Johnson and his colleagues identified the crater thanks ... pummelled by meteorites in its ...

The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 billion ... as they clearly had on our cratered Moon and on other planets, moons and asteroids. Now we and others have the chance to test these ideas ...

The oldest rocks on Earth formed more than 3 billion ... as they clearly had on our cratered moon and on other planets, moons and asteroids. Now we and others have the chance to test these ideas ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no ... common in the early solar system from looking at the moon,” Tim Johnson, study co-lead and a professor ...