Cyclone Senyar is drawing attention as an unusual tropical system forms in the Strait of Malacca, surprising meteorologists.

For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption ...

That hurricanes do not cross the equator is a claim that has spread online for years, and that’s because the concept on which this idea is based – the Coriolis Effect – is a complex one. Earth's ...

While much of our planet’s air and seas are stirred at a tempest’s whim, some features are far more regular. At the equator, thousand-kilometer-long waves persist amid the chaos. In both the ocean and ...

Getting climate models to mimic real-time observations when it comes to warming is critical -- small discrepancies can lead to misunderstandings about the rate of global warming as the climate changes ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — After the devastation of Hurricane Helene and now Hurricane Milton hitting Florida, reports have been spreading on social media that hurricanes never cross the equator. This is ...

There are 13 countries that sit on Earth's equator. Can you get them all in 5 minutes? If so, how fast can you do it? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Until June we lived just south of the equator, in Tanzania. Every day of the year was around 80 degrees. The best way to get ...