Hurricanes wreak havoc in various parts of the world. However, it's a curious fact that they very rarely approach the equator ...

Spring 2025 technically begins at 5:01 a.m. Eastern time that day as the sun moves directly over the Earth’s equator — the ...

Nearly two dozen impact craters known to occur during this time were all within 30 degrees of Earth’s equator, signaling that the meteoroids may have rained down from a rocky ring around the ...

The circumference (distance around the largest part of the Earth) is roughly 24,898 miles (40,070 kilometers), according to NASA. (This area is also called the equator.) If you estimate that a day ...

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this also applied in the center of continents, where conditions would have ...

Earth's widening equator is having a similar effect on its spin. "To me, the fact that human beings have caused the rotation of the Earth to change is kind of amazing," Agnew told CNN. Perhaps you ...

Warm air rising from Earth's surface pushes the air mass away from the equator, and releases its moisture as precipitation as it travels pole-ward (Figure 1). If the Earth did not spin on its axis ...