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

According to this model, submerged tectonic plates should be found near subduction zones ... researchers identified abnormal zones beneath the western Pacific Ocean, far from any known subduction zone ...

Scientists using GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying ... as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans. Experts say the Southern Ocean was formed about ...

A team of scientists in Switzerland have discovered mysterious spots, which they dubbed as a sunken world, deep in the bosom of the Pacific Ocean.

Two Buried Supercontinents Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean Could Be Much Older Than Previously Assumed Earth has several ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

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

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's coast, causing it to swell in changing patterns that hint at impending strife ...

The Ring of Fire exists where the Pacific Plate, which sits under the ocean, meets with many other tectonic plates. The Ring ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...