Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian rock. Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite ...

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A team of Australian scientists from Curtin University uncovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact site—a 3.47 ...

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The earliest known fossils of single-celled organisms date from around the time the crater was formed, the Archaean era, which overlapped with the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment. It is thought ...

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

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.