Tectonic plates under the Americas, Europe, and Africa are separating as the Atlantic Ocean grows wider. A 2021 study suggests atypically hot material, 410 miles underground, is rising and forcing the ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

In March 2016, a research team dropped 39 seismometers to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the western tip of Africa, to listen for the rumblings of earthquakes near and far. A year later, they’ve ...

An upsurge of hot rock from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart. The Americas are moving away from Europe and Africa by a few centimeters each year, as ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Iceland's unique position sits directly atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates are slowly drifting apart. 5 centimeters per year, creating a continuous zone ...