Deep within the African continent, a massive geological transformation is taking place as tectonic forces slowly tear the land apart ... During this time, the Afar Depression would continue to sink ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

The deepest part of our oceans is not just some of the least-explored places on our planet, but in our entire solar system.