Seismological and geological studies led by University of Melbourne researchers show the 2016 magnitude 6.0 Petermann earthquake produced a landscape-shifting 21 km surface rupture. The dimensions and ...

Scientists have explained how a mysterious mountain range in central Australia was formed 550 million years ago. Geophysicist Dr Alan Aitken of Monash University in Melbourne and colleagues report ...

More than 5 million hectares of Aboriginal land in Central Australia has been declared an Indigenous Protected Area, for traditional owners to manage and protect. The vast swathe of Aboriginal ...

New research near Uluru in Australia's arid center shows that rock structures formed deep within the ancient Gondwana supercontinent controlled the rupture pathways of one of Australia's largest ...