A strikingly clear lake nestled in southwestern Turkey has become a focal point for scientists aiming to understand the ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

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

The impact crater could be linked to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than three billion years ago is changing the way ...

It stands to reason, then, that a lack of “truly ancient craters” documented on Earth isn’t the result of sheer luck, but rather the nature of time. Early impact records are scarce thanks to ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

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, making it the ...

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.

so this is by far the oldest known crater ever found on Earth," Professor Johnson said. Researchers discovered the crater thanks to 'shatter cones', distinctive rock formations only formed under ...

Shatter cones, which are features caused by the shockwave of a hypervelocity meteorite impact, are evidence that something hit this region when Earth was young. Impact craters this old have the ...

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 ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is the only place on Earth that's similar to Jezero crater on Mars. Lake Salda is a body of water in Turkey that bears a strong resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater.