QUICK FACTS. Name: Wilkes Land crater Location: East Antarctica Coordinates: 70°S 120°E Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes ...

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia, according to new research reported in Nature Communications. The crater was made about ...

Curiously enough, the crater was exactly where we had hoped it would be, and its discovery supports a theory about the birth of Earth's first continents.. The very first rocks. The oldest rocks on ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life.. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 billion ...

The crater dates back 3.5 billion years, making it the oldest known by more than a billion years. Earth’s oldest impact crater was just found in Australia – exactly where geologists hoped it ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater in Western Australia. It has been dated to about 3.5 billion years ago, at a time when these almost literally Earth ...

World’s Oldest Impact Crater Discovered, Toppling Previous Record By 1.3 Billion Years The discovery in Western Australia could be rewriting Earth’s ancient history. Dr. Alfredo Carpineti ...

A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57558-3; Cite This Page: MLA; APA; Chicago; Curtin University.

The world's oldest crater from a meteorite isn't an impact crater after all Mar 11, 2021 Scientists date moon's oldest impact basin to over 4.32 billion years ago ...

From these exceptional images, a clearer picture of what happened 66 million years ago, when the crater formed, has emerged. For instance, the team now knows that the asteroid itself was larger ...