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

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater ... "possibly similar to dropping a rock straight down onto the ground," Bernhardt ...

The crater is located in Western Australia's Pilbara region, which is home to some of Earth's oldest rocks. Johnson and his colleagues identified ... billion years of existence due to scars on the ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no ... common in the early solar system from looking at the moon,” Tim Johnson, study co-lead and a professor ...

One of its tasks is to study the composition of rocks and dirt in the basin. Since scientists believe this is the oldest basin on the moon learning what it's made of might help us understand how ...

The rock, named “Silver Mountain,” is believed ... landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the Moon’s oldest craters. Studies published in Science and Nature revealed volc ...

We can see the evidence of these impacts on the Moon, but the geological traces ... a place that has some of the oldest exposed rocks in the world. This place has allowed scientists to better ...

The Chang'e 5 return capsule containing the Earth's newest moon rocks is loaded into a truck. Credit: Xinhua News Agency / Getty Images The newest moon rocks to have landed on Earth are now headed ...

This made them among the oldest manufactured objects on the planet ... Rather, it’s a meteorite from our near neighbour, the Moon. Also known as lunar breccia, it’s a more sprightly 3.7 ...