Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

Beneath the Afar region's vast landscape in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered a powerful geological force that is reshaping the continent. A 35-mile-crack known as the Dabbahu fissure was ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...