Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

The Equator is a line of latitude that bisects the globe at its widest point, and where the hours of light and darkness are equal throughout the year. The Equator passes through 13 countries ...

A recent study claims that Earth may have once had a ring system. This theory sheds light on the presence of an unusual density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the ...

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these explosives is costly and time-consuming. New research could help ...

So why is the temperature so different in different places? There is an imaginary circle called the equator that divides the Earth into two parts. The Sun is our heat source here on Earth.

One that has made me an advocate for equator tourism. Our Earth’s circle of latitude passes through 11 countries: Indonesia ...

The answer is not that the equator possesses some magical ability ... So essentially, in simpler terms, the rotation of the earth has an effect on the direction of large masses of water.

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 ...