The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

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

Hurricanes, also known as typhoons or cyclones, cannot cross the Equator due to the Coriolis effect. This phenomenon, caused by Earth's rotation, produces a force that is too weak at the Equator to ...

It seems early dinosaurs were not fond of the tropics. For the first 30 million years after dinosaurs appeared, they steered clear of the equator, a fact that has confounded paleontologists. Almost no ...

Living in the tropics — hands down — beats living at the poles. At least that's the consensus of the high number of species crowding near the equator. However, the underlying reason behind this ...

Say your goodbyes to warm weather and hello to sweater season. Fall arrives Thursday. The autumn equinox, when the sun's center crosses the equator, will happen tonight at 9:04 pm EST, marking the ...

There are some strange doings in Ecuador. They built a monument to the equator on the equator, only they put it in the wrong place. It's a few hundred feet south of the actual equator. No one seems to ...

The Congo River is the world's only major river to cross the Equator twice, a rare feat shaped by ancient geological forces.