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.

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 ...

where it may remain intact or scatter its bits across a still unknown location on either side of the equator. The Soviet-era spacecraft will plunge through Earth’s atmosphere sometime between ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the longest time, scientists worked based on the equation that g ... For example, gravity’s effects on Earth at the equator are different, as the pull is weaker there.