Scientists have discovered a long hidden plate boundary near the east coast of Africa that dates back about 180 million years.

If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map of Earth's principal tectonic plates. Earth's lithosphere. Major and minor plates. arrows indicate direction of movement at ...

(jacus/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Hundreds of millions of years ago, our world looked very different from the way it does ...

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

Isotope analysis of gas from geothermal springs in Zambia could show that a new continental rift is forming, scientists say.

Idyllic at the forest’s edge or urban in the middle of the city–in an old apartment or a prefab building: Your home likely feels very “stable.” You go to bed tonight and don’t suddenly wake up in a ...

Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

A group of Earth scientists led by Utrecht University has created an online tool that shows where any place on Earth was ...

Scientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show’s finale today. The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations ...