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

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

This week, geologists announced they discovered the world's oldest known impact crater. It's in Western Australia's ancient ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Chris Kirkland is a professor of geochronology at Curtin University in Australia. Learn and share the most exciting ...

Studying Snowball Earth offers a window into our planet’s past, but it also presents valuable insights into modern climate change, lead study author Dr. Chris Kirkland said. “Our deep time ...

Lead author Professor Chris Kirkland from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin's Frontier Institute for Geoscience Solutions said the study provides valuable insights into how ...

Scientists believe a newly-discovered crater believed to be the oldest in the world reveals a number of clues to the early ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth," Chris Kirkland of Curtin University in Australia ...