Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Molten mantle pulses under Afar, shaping volcanoes and tearing Africa apart to form a new ocean. (CREDIT: Dr Derek Keir, ...

Picture your sidewalk on a scorching summer day. You've probably seen how the concrete expands and contracts with temperature changes, sometimes creating small cracks that seem to appear overnight.

Geologists have made a startling discovery, the Indian tectonic plate is tearing apart beneath Tibet, unveiling a complex geological process that could reshape our understanding of how the Earth’s ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within ...

It's one of the only places on Earth where three giant cracks, or rifts, in the Earth's surface meet. These rifts stretch across Ethiopia and beyond, and over time, they are splitting the land apart.