An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight ...

(jacus/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Hundreds of millions of years ago, our world looked very different from the way it does ...

Scientists confirm the northern boundaries of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, is submerged across almost two million ...

UWA researchers have helped to unearth more about how ancient continents formed on Earth 3.5 billion years ago.

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

Researchers say Kafue Rift could become new tectonic plate boundary and lead to break-up of sub-Saharan Africa ...

From the slow creep of continents to the violent birth of mountains, plate tectonics has been sculpting Earth for billions of years. New research reveals that these processes may have started far ...

Learn how gases rising through Zambia’s hot springs may reveal some of the earliest signs of a continent beginning to split ...

A new study found that giant diamonds formed in iron-rich regions deep beneath continents. The findings may help explain the ...