Australian navy light cruiser HMAS Sydney sunk off the coast off Western Australia in November 1941 after a battle with German raider Kormoran. The foreign warship had been disguised as a Dutch ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

The fast-spreading parasite, varroa mite, is expected to wipe out half of the ACT's 6,000 bee hives within two years, putting local fruit and vegetable crops at risk. Varroa mites are 1 to 2 ...

Police have locked down a suburb of Canberra following reports of a man with a firearm. Those in Whitlam were advised to remain indoors and follow police instructions as the lockdown came into effect ...

The land battle phase of Exercise Talisman Saber 2017 was launched on July 13, 2017, with the largest amphibious landing Australian troops have been involved in since WWII. Troops transported ashore ...

The ADF embarked its HIMARS on the HMAS Canberra amphibious assault ship as a part of sea transportability trials. (Lockheed Martin) The Australian Army has embarked its Lockheed Martin M142 ...

The Australian army has commenced flight operations with its new Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. Initial flights took place from Townsville in the country’s northern Queensland state, where ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds. The IJN Teruzuki fought fiercely in the first and second naval battles of ...

Australia’s army has taken delivery of its first two Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters, with two more examples due before the end of 2025. The helicopters were delivered to RAAF Townsville in ...

An Australian Army M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tank, seen here embarking on HMAS Adelaide during sea transportability trials at the Port of Townsville, Queensland, on 4 September 2025. (Australia ...