Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK ... are located within 30 degrees of the equator, leaving 70 percent of the Earth's surface more or less untouched.

A team of astronomers led by a British student found traces of the first-ever-discovered planet moving in a polar orbit ...

The spacecraft’s expected area of reentry spans vast regions on both sides of the equator, where it could potentially land in a single piece.

The ring would have formed along the equator due to Earth’s equatorial bulge ... it would be quite spectacular,” he said. Based on the duration of the global cooling period and the dating ...

According to Newsweek, the reason for this hurricane-free equatorial zone is due to the Coriolis effect, a force that acts on our atmosphere because the Earth rotates faster at the equator than at ...

As a result, the Earth's normal oblate shape, resembling a somewhat flattened sphere bulging at the equator ... day on Earth has always been evident, based on data that goes back 3,000 years ...

The researchers concluded that powerful jet stream winds around the equator explained that phenomenon. As on Earth, the WASP-127b’s poles are ... weather studies like this one can only be conducted ...

The vernal equinox, which occurs at the start of astronomical spring, is when the sun's rays equally shine on both of the Earth's hemispheres. Thursday marks the vernal equinox, or the first day of ...

The mission will aim to fly at a 90-degree circular orbit, meaning it will be exactly perpendicular to the equator. While in orbit, the crew plans to observe Earth’s polar regions from about ...