Australia is not only the smallest continent but also Earth's largest island. But the land Down Under wasn't always so isolated; it was once part of a bigger supercontinent. So when did Australia ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ancient mantle and continents, and the early beginnings of the moon.

I was always taught there were seven continents, Australia being one of them. However, I've been doing this long enough to know many of my international viewers might've been taught something else; ...

For centuries, Earth was said to have seven continents — but one was hiding in plain sight. Beneath the waves of the South ...

If the moon's diameter (3,476 km) is the yardstick for comparison, then Australia (about 4,000 km) is indeed wider. But the moon's land area is far larger than the continent. An assertion we've ...

What happened to Argoland, the continent that broke off western Australia 155 million years ago? Geologists at Utrecht University have now managed to reconstruct the history of the lost continent. As ...