A massive crack in East Africa is growing fast. Scientists believe it could one day split the continent and form Earth’s ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Scientists say Africa is slowly splitting in two due to molten rock pulses beneath Ethiopia, potentially forming a new ocean ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

A 35-mile-long crack, known as the East African Rift, is gradually tearing through the landscape—marking the early stages of a colossal geological shift. Africa is splitting—and Earth's sixth ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, ...

A NEW ocean is forming beneath Ethiopia as a “heartbeat”-like pulse deep below the Earth’s surface splits the African ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

Beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered pulsing waves of molten rock rising from deep within the ...

Though no one currently on Earth (or even their great-great-great grandchildren) will live to see it, one day, the African continent could be cut in half and separated by a new body of water. The ...

A slow, rhythmic pulse of hot rock has been found beneath Africa’s fault lines in Ethiopia. Over millions of years, it could ...