It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might have been the place that life on Earth began. “We know large impacts were common in the early solar system from looking at the Moon,

The high-speed collision may have played a role in forming continents, reshaping land, and creating conditions necessary for early life.

A massive meteorite strike 3.5 billion years ago left behind the world’s oldest known impact crater, challenging previous ideas about Earth’s ancient history. Researchers from Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) uncovered evidence in the North Pole Dome region of the Pilbara,