A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

Researchers have found fresh evidence that Africa is breaking apart because of a deep mantle superplume of hot rock beneath ...

The Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea will flood over the Afar region and into the East African Rift Valley, giving rise to a new ...

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

This ancient rift system formed approximately 1.1 billion years ago when the North American continent began to split apart in a process similar to what’s happening today in East Africa’s Great ...

The East African Rift Valley region contains several sites ... but it definitely doesn't end there,” Pobiner said. Several 3D replicas of early human ancestor skulls were included in the ...

Future Continental Breakup: If rifting continues, the Horn of Africa may eventually separate from the main African continent, forming a new ocean basin. Prabhat Mishra is an accomplished content ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another ... for the inhabitants of East Africa," said HowStuffWorks.

with a 35-mile crack along the East African rift in Afar currently under watch. Experts monitoring the gap say the deepening crack will eventually separate from the rest of the continent as water ...

A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East African Rift (EAR) in Afar, Ethiopia, in 2005, and experts say it will eventually separate from the rest of the continent as a new ...