This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever, however. A ...

On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

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

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the continent sooner than previously ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

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

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant. Plate ...

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