Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...

In the Afar region of Ethiopia, the ground beneath our feet is stretching and tearing at a rate of 16 millimeters per year ...

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

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

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

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

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have found something quite unusual taking place with our planet. They discovered ...