Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...