A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth's oceans has been discovered. The disk, which is located in the constellation Taurus, is 450 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers used the ...

Deep beneath East Africa, the planet is quietly rewriting its own map. A colossal crack is opening in the crust, slowly enough that no one alive today will see the final result, yet fast enough that ...

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The African continent is undergoing a dramatic transformation as tectonic forces carve a path toward the formation of a new ...

Earth’s oceans, party of five. Sitting together at the salty dinner table that is the globe, there’s the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans – mingling, reveling, occasionally ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...