Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

In recent years, East Africa has been experiencing significant surface fractures due to the separation of two tectonic plates, potentially leading to the formation of a new ocean. One notable ...

What is the closest Earth could get to the Sun without being pulled in or torn to bits ... So the Earth would roast before it fell apart. For the second part of the question, we probably couldn ...

Meghan Bartels is a science journalist based in New York City who covers the science happening on the surface of Earth ... up how much land was being torn apart over time and compare the extent ...

Africa could be torn apart like paper ... is one of the few places on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity, with the Somali and Nubian plates moving apart. This process is how ...

These dynamics aren't immediately obvious at the surface, but they reveal how the mantle and crust work together to shape Earth's topography ... But the plate is also being torn apart as it ...

the visible point where the ground over a major faultline splits apart, in action. The video, which went viral on Reddit earlier this week, shows the moment as the Earth begins to quake.

An artist's rendition shows what a cosmic catastrophe concerning Earth could look like. CfA/Mark A. Garlick — -- A world in another solar system is literally being torn apart by a star in the ...

Even if the Earth were to survive the sun's expansion into a red giant, and avoid being torn apart, it would not be habitable by any means. "Whether or not the Earth can just move out fast enough ...