Africa's ground is shifting. Tectonic forces are tearing the continent apart along the East African Rift. Satellites and GPS show this separation is happening now, widening by millimetres annually.

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

A detailed 3D reconstruction of the Marmara fault highlights high-stress boundaries that could trigger the next major ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...