The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

Unlike other continents, Australia sits on a relatively small ... Over time, the collision will also force rock upward, forming new mountain ranges. This process, known as orogeny, is how towering ...

The world’s longest continuous road passes through deserts, mountains ... it goes around the whole continent. According to Guinness World Records, Australia's Highway 1 is the longest continuous ...

The Greater Blue Mountains Area (GBMA) is a deeply incised sandstone tableland that encompasses 1.03 million hectares of eucalypt-dominated landscape just inland from Sydney, Australia’s largest city, ...

A trail from Alice Springs takes hikers through a baking landscape of mountains, pools, plants and trees that inspired an Aboriginal artist.

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct collision ...