A radio telescope in remote Western Australia is helping to build a 3-dimensional map of the night sky, mapping nearby galaxies up to a billion light years away. Published today in the ...

the usually-dry saltpan situated in the Australian Outback and the lowest point on the continent. The amount of rainfall determines whether water will reach the saltpan, and if so, how much.

The drive into the Australian Outback starts before sunrise ... mentally and physically when you land. If you open up a map and find Alice Springs, it’ll put your location into perspective.

By themselves, Australia’s deserts account for an estimated ... With a focus on remote outback travel, having access to a number of maps – and accurate ones – is key to effective trip preparation. The ...

In Australia's Outback, roadhouses are often the only place ... Many tourists simply plug “Alice Springs” into Google Maps and take the quickest route, assuming it’s paved, she said.

I wander up the grand wooden staircase of Trades Hall and peer into glass cases at union badges and banners, newspaper reports and picket maps ... and drag queens: outback Australia always ...

The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly ...

In a landscape so ancient that, in parts, it predates life on the planet, animals are superbly adapted to the harsh and beautiful extremes of the outback of Australia. We travel with these ...

On the red dirt roads of outback Queensland in summer ... encountered many underprepared drivers during their "big lap of Australia". "There's been a couple of times we've offered water or ...