The closest a tropical storm or hurricane has ever come to crossing the equator was Typhoon Vamei in December 2001 in the western Pacific, which got within 100 miles of the equator, forming at ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it’s round, not flat?

Here's why flat world maps always have distortions. Skip to main ... is not flat — it is technically an oblate spheroid — a sphere with a flattened top and bottom and a bulge along the equator.

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

The Equator is a line of latitude that bisects the globe at its widest point, and where the hours of light and darkness are equal throughout the year. The Equator passes through 13 countries ...

The first thing to keep in mind is that ocean currents are very thin compared to the diameter of Earth. They’re only about four kilometers (13,000 feet) deep at most, and surface currents can be just ...

Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium have etched a tiny world map–on a scale of 1 trillion—on to a optical silicon chip. They reduced the earth’s 25,000-mile circumference at the ...

This bizarre fact went viral on Twitter after science communicator Hank Green retweeted a map posted by user @Bonecondor showing the routes and severity of hurricanes around the world, amassing 1. ...

US schools to get new world map after 500 years of 'colonial' distortion. ... There is no distortion at the equator, but sizes gradually increase the further you get towards the poles.

A world map shows where fireballs have been caught red-handed by U.S. government sensors. The size and color of each circle indicates how much energy a fireball had upon impact.