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.

Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images The equator is the imaginary line that horizontally encircles the middle of Earth, stretching approximately 24,900 miles (40,000 kilometers) long. It's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...