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

Unlike for many of its resource rich neighbours, Kenyan mining remains underdeveloped and unexplored. The country shares rich ...

A team of Australian scientists from Curtin University uncovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact site—a 3.47 ...

Although the Earth’s been decidedly blue for 600 million years, rising populations of phytoplankton caused by rising temperatures are once again causing the world’s oceans to turn green.

The earliest known fossils of single-celled organisms date from around the time the crater was formed, the Archaean era, which overlapped with the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment. It is thought ...

THE world’s oldest-known crater from an asteroid smash 3.5 billion years ago has been discovered in the Australian outback.

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.

More information: Taro Matsuo et al, Archaean green-light environments drove the evolution of cyanobacteria's light-harvesting system, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025 ...