New ANU research is set to radically overturn the conventional wisdom that early Earth was a hellish planet barren of continents. An international research team led by Professor Mark Harrison of the ...

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, North and South America, Europe – and the Maritime Continent. Never heard of the last one? That’s because it’s not a continent made of land. In fact, it’s the ...