In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

The separation was protracted; while South America and Africa drifted apart at 135 million ... a massive upwelling of hot material from deep within the Earth. Geologist and geophysicist Mohamed ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

From space, the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space will link to some of the most accurate clocks on Earth to create a ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

Besides being viewable across North and South America, the eclipse will also be seen across parts of Western Europe and Africa ... through the outer part of Earth’s shadow called the penumbra ...

The eclipse will be visible Saturday across Europe, western Africa, eastern North America and northern Asia ... the moon passes between the sun and Earth. The moon casts a shadow on Earth and ...

Lunar eclipses happen when Earth aligns between the sun and ... Parts of Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, Pacific and Africa saw at least some part of the eclipse. The full eclipse portion ...