For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

As astronomers study an exoplanet called K2-18b, conflicting research reveals how difficult it is to find evidence of life ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

June sky shows planets before sunrise, Mars near Regulus, the glowing Milky Way, and the solstice with shifting daylight hours.

It’s over 6,000C here - you were cooked long ago. The distance to the centre of the Earth has been taken as the volumetric mean radius of the Earth: 6,371km. Note that this distance and the ...

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 equator, an imaginary line dividing the Earth into hemispheres, influences unique phenomena. It dictates weather patterns, prevents hurricanes from crossing due to the Coriolis effect ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of millions of years ago, transforming the planet into an icicle floating in ...

One that has made me an advocate for equator tourism. Our Earth’s circle of latitude passes through 11 countries: Indonesia (which has the longest cut), Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, the ...

However, we have shown in this study that the low-velocity region is only near the Equator. Earth’s outer core has a radius of around 3,480km, which makes it slightly bigger than the planet Mars.

Earth's now steamy Equator was covered with ice 716 million years ago, according to a new study. The finding appears to add solid evidence to the theory of an ancient "snowball Earth." The ...

It depends on the radius of the primary body and the ... Heating over the equator will affect the whole of Earth. It seems that the whole affair might be more bother than anything.