The Yarrabubba crater lies in western Australia's Yilgarn craton, one of the most ancient pieces of Earth’s crust. Stars indicate locations where rock samples were taken; the dotted line marks a ...

Earth’s oldest asteroid strike was at Yarrabubba, in Western Australia’s outback, around 2.229 billion years ago, Aussie scientists have confirmed. The team from Curtin University in Perth used ...

The 40-mile wide crater is more than 2.2 billion years old. New geologic data reveals that a crater in Western Australia is likely the oldest impact structure on Earth, according to a paper published ...

Deep in the Midwest region of Western Australia, hidden beneath layers of eroded rock, lies what scientists have now ...

The Yarrabubba crater, located between the cities of Sandstone and Meekatharra in Western Australia, is an impact structure that has captured the attention of the scientific community due to its ...

Researchers have discovered the Earth's oldest asteroid impact crater, a 2.2 billion-year-old strike found in Western Australia. The space rock may have also ended a massive ice age that radically ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have identified Earth's oldest-known impact crater, and in doing so may have solved a mystery about how our planet emerged from one of its most dire periods.

THE oldest crater on Earth has been precisely dated and scientists think the impact could have changed the world’s climate. Western Australia’s Yarrabubba crater is now thought to be 200 million years ...

Scientists say that the Earth has about 190 major meteor craters on its surface. Despite having so many impact craters, scientists only know the age of a few of them. A team of scientists recently ...

The Australian crater Yarrabubba is the oldest known on Earth, according to new measurements, and it might be linked to the end of a “Snowball Earth” ice age. Yarrabubba crater in Western Australia ...