When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images The equator is the imaginary line that horizontally ...
Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?
Melting ice caps changing planet's shape. Aug. 7, 2011 — -- Like many of its inhabitants, the Earth is getting thicker around the middle -- that's what a new study says. The increased bulge is ...
It has been a long standing puzzle to astronomers: why is the Earth's orbit tipped 7 degrees relative to the sun's equator? Now a new theory suggests that violent stage of our solar system's history, ...
Spring has finally sprung, which means days will keep getting longer from now until the summer. The season officially commenced as the sun shone directly over the equator and daytime and nighttime ...
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Geodesy is the study of Earth’s shape and size, and of variations in its gravitational field. Earth was originally believed to be flat, but many clues, such as the way ships appear and disappear on ...
Enormous seismic events that took place at the equator are responsible for the plummeting global temperatures that have marked each of Earth’s ice ages, according to a new study. As the plates of the ...
Winter is officially coming. The Northern Hemisphere blew by the longest day of the year with June’s summer solstice and is now coming up to the fall equinox on September 22—the day when the sun ...
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