Throughout Earth’s history, the continents have been constantly on the move, converging and diverging in cycles that have shaped the planet’s surface for billions of years. This process, known as ...

If Pangaea never broke apart, life on Earth would look completely different. For starters, there’d be just one giant supercontinent, so no separate continents like we have now—imagine being able to ...

Deep Pulses Beneath Africa Are Breaking the Continent Apart, Creating a New Ocean Learn more about the pounding plume of molten rock that’s beneath Ethiopia, forcing its three tectonic plates to ...

The UK equivalent of touring a nascent production in Albany and Ithaca in the hope of a Broadway transfer, is to to play one of London’s fringe venues. Few come with the pedigree of The King’s Head, ...

For millions of years, Africa has been slowly splitting apart. Now, scientists have found new evidence pointing to a dramatic force deep beneath the continent—a rising African superplume that ...

Africa is being split apart by intense ‘superplume’ of hot rock 1,800 miles below Earth’s surface, experts warn The East African Rift System (EARS) is the largest active continental rift ...

Mr. Handy is the author of “Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies.” The new Tom Cruise movie, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” is nearly as ...

The world's largest iceberg, A23a, is breaking apart into smaller pieces. NASA's Aqua satellite has captured images of A23a's disintegration. A23a is approximately 1,200 square miles, calving from ...

The East Village supper-club Pangea is presenting its first “Singer Songrwiter Series” this month, from May 2 to 30.

A green comet likely is breaking apart and won't be visible to the naked eye Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto, may not have survived its recent trip past the sun and is fading ...

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle. Comet SWAN, hailing from the Oort Cloud beyond Pluto ...

A newly discovered green comet tracked by telescopes has likely broken apart as it swung by the sun, dashing hopes of a naked-eye spectacle.