A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

The map of Earth looks settled at first glance. Continents feel fixed, named, and counted. Yet over the past few decades, ...

While Atlantis—a fabled continent said to have been swallowed by the sea—continues to elude its seekers, another long-lost and less famous land mass has been discovered at the bottom of the ocean. The ...

We’re all reminded from time to time that Earth’s tectonic plates are in constant flux. There was recent news, for example, that the odds of a San Andreas quake occurring between the Pacific and North ...

The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

Humanity may soon boast two motherlands. Geologists studying plate tectonics of Africa have revealed that the continent that’s home to 54 countries is splitting up. The fault line, called the East ...