Articles for tag: ancient crater, early Earth, impact geology, Origin of Life, planetary science

What Earth's Oldest Crater Reveals About the Origin of Life

What Earth’s Oldest Crater Reveals About the Origin of Life

Jan Otte

When you think about life’s beginnings, massive asteroid impacts might not come to mind as nurturing forces. Yet a groundbreaking discovery in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region has revealed something extraordinary. What may be the world’s oldest known impact crater, hidden beneath ancient rock layers for nearly three and a half billion years, is rewriting ...