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

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...