It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 billion-year-old, 43-mile-wide Yarrabubba crater. Researchers at Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) say the new recordholder is located about 660 miles north in the country’s Pilbara region.

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped.

A massive meteorite strike 3.5 billion years ago left behind the world’s oldest known impact crater, challenging previous ideas about Earth’s ancient history. Researchers from Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) uncovered evidence in the North Pole Dome region of the Pilbara,