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Yarrabubba Crater was blasted out by an asteroid or comet about 2.23 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The Yarrabubba crater lies in western Australia's Yilgarn craton, one of the most ancient pieces of Earth’s crust. Stars indicate locations where rock samples were taken; the dotted line marks a ...

The Yarrabubba crater was formed by an impact some 2.2 billion years ago, making it the oldest known impact crater on Earth. This date also suggests that the Yarrabubba impact may have helped Earth ...

The asteroid struck Earth in Western Australia, leaving behind the 43.5-mile-wide (70km) Yarrabubba meteor crater. The impact occurred around the time of a warming period and the end of a planet-wide ...

Scientists have identified the Yarrabubba impact crater in Western Australia as the Earth's oldest, dating back 2.229 billion ...

The Australian crater Yarrabubba is the oldest known on Earth, according to new measurements, and it might be linked to the end of a “Snowball Earth” ice age. Yarrabubba crater in Western Australia ...

THE oldest crater on Earth has been precisely dated and scientists think the impact could have changed the world’s climate. Western Australia’s Yarrabubba crater is now thought to be 200 million years ...

The Yarrabubba impact structure in remote Western Australia is the oldest known asteroid crater on Earth, according to a study published yesterday (January 21) in Nature Communications. At 2.229 ...

There are 70,000 meteorites — pieces of debris from space objects that hit Earth — known to scientists. But only 190 of them left behind impact craters scientists could identify. According to a study ...

THE oldest crater on Earth has been precisely dated and scientists think the impact could have changed the world’s climate. Western Australia’s Yarrabubba crater is now thought to be 200 million years ...