{"id":208125,"date":"2025-03-08T08:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/worlds-oldest-impact-crater-found-rewriting-earths-ancient-history"},"modified":"2025-03-08T08:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:10:15","slug":"worlds-oldest-impact-crater-found-rewriting-earths-ancient-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/worlds-oldest-impact-crater-found-rewriting-earths-ancient-history","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth\u2019s ancient history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-oldest-impact-crater-found-rewriting-earths-ancient-history.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curtin University researchers have <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-57558-3\">discovered<\/a> the world\u2019s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped.<\/p>\n<p>The team from Curtin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/learning-teaching\/science-engineering\/school-of-earth-and-planetary-sciences\/\">School of Earth and Planetary Sciences<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmp.wa.gov.au\/Geological-Survey\/Geological-Survey-262.aspx\">Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA)<\/a> investigated rock layers in the North Pole Dome \u2014 an area of the Pilbara region of Western Australia \u2014 and found evidence of a major meteorite impact 3.5 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Study co-lead <a href=\"https:\/\/staffportal.curtin.edu.au\/staff\/profile\/view\/tim-johnson-abb64fdd\/\">Professor Tim Johnson<\/a>, from Curtin University, said the discovery significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet\u2019s ancient history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtin University researchers have discovered the world\u2019s oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team from Curtin\u2019s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) investigated rock layers in the North Pole Dome [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}