this crack allowed more than usual to penetrate the planet, so it's definitely something experts will need to keep an eye on. Importantly, strong enough ejections from the Sun can knock out lots of ...

The East African Rift - a huge crack in the Earth’s surface - is at the centre of this activity, which stretches from Mozambique in the south to the Red Sea in the north. It represents the only ...

Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these ... single-celled organisms reigned when Earth's plates first cracked apart. In fact, as new methods ...

The ground is cracked and crumbling ... often that we can actually see very dramatic changes in the surface of the earth," says University of Tasmania volcanologist Jocelyn McPhie.