Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only six.

This continent may be dividing in two, according to a startling finding on the map of Earth. Africa is expected to split but only within millions of years.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Eastern Africa is perched on the Somalia plate which has been pulling away from the rest of the continent on the Nubian plate for about 25,00,000 years, literal ground-breaking research found in 2012.

Their research revealed that in the present day, deep below the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate -- the ocean floor that used to be between the Arabian and Eurasian continents -- is ...

The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.