New research links the impact at Meteor Crater to a Grand Canyon landslide that may have created an ancient lake 56,000 years ...

According to their results, the crater was created over 3.5 billion years ago when a meteorite crashed into what is now a region of Western Australia. This was an incredible and exciting find at the ...

Researchers in Australia found the crater in Western Australia's Pilbara region and believe it's the oldest impact crater in the world, at about 3.5 billion years old.

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by 800 million years.

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the University of New Mexico describes a lake in the Grand Canyon created by a landslide ...

The researchers were fascinated by a landslide that formed a paleolake and an asteroid impact that carved a massive crater, ...

An impact crater, believed to be associated with the “Great Dying,” the largest extinction event in the history of life on Earth — much earlier than the extinction of the dinosaurs ...

Geology is full of detective stories about Earth’s history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

A remarkable coincidence occurred 56,000 years ago, when the impact that created Meteor Crater triggered both a landslide-dammed lake and a paleolake formation in the Grand Canyon. Earth’s ancient ...

David Kring, who served as senior science advisor at Meteor Crater for 24 years, has been working to recalculate Meteor Crater's age, with estimates ranging between 49,000 and 63,000 years using ...

The second-oldest impact crater, estimated to have been created about 2.2 billion years ago, is also located in Western Australia, southwest of Pilbara, in Yarrabubba.