Hurricanes wreak havoc in various parts of the world. However, it's a curious fact that they very rarely approach the equator ...

Today it is almost midway between the equator and the poles and raised by the Rocky Mountains. However, 661 million years ago was a different matter. Then the area was relatively flat and located ...

During an ice age, the polar regions are cold, there are large differences in temperature from the equator to the pole, and large, continental-size glaciers can cover enormous regions of the earth.

By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent shaped like a giant C that straddled the Equator and extended toward the Poles. Almost as ...

For the past four months, we’ve been on standard time. But overnight Saturday, we’ll turn our clocks ahead one hour at 2 a.m.

Tropical air moves away from the equator and toward the poles. As it travels, it cools, becomes denser, and eventually descends around 30˚ north- or south-latitude. This dry air mass, having lost ...

During the Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE), the spacecraft took the first measurements of this kind ...