A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth's oceans has been discovered. The disk, which is located in the constellation Taurus, is 450 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers used the ...

View post: REI's Top-Rated Winter Gloves That Are Warm Enough for 'Single-Digit Temperatures' Are 30% Off Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different…millions of years from now, that is.

Earth’s oceans, party of five. Sitting together at the salty dinner table that is the globe, there’s the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern Oceans – mingling, reveling, occasionally ...

The African continent is undergoing a dramatic transformation as tectonic forces carve a path toward the formation of a new ocean. The East African Rift System, a vast network of faults stretching ...

The ocean has long acted as a stabilizing force in the climate system, quietly drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...