Your navigation system just got a critical update, one that happens periodically because Earth’s magnetic north pole keeps moving. Here’s what to know.

Explore the extraordinary weather phenomena on WASP-127b, where supersonic winds reach speeds of 33,000 kilometers per hour.

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this also applied in the center of continents, where conditions would have ...

Research finds dinosaurs likely evolved near equator, not Southern Hemisphere New findings suggest the origins of dinosaurs ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

Learn about a planet that experiences winds a thousand times stronger than Earth’s.

Earth's widening equator is having a similar effect on its spin. "To me, the fact that human beings have caused the rotation of the Earth to change is kind of amazing," Agnew told CNN. Perhaps you ...

Stand on the equator and you'll be moving at 1,670 kilometers per hour — faster than the speed of sound! That's how quickly Earth rotates on its axis, from West to East. And that rotation is ...

Warm air rising from Earth's surface pushes the air mass away from the equator, and releases its moisture as precipitation as it travels pole-ward (Figure 1). If the Earth did not spin on its axis ...

It marks that moment when the sun reaches that point when it is positioned farthest north — 23.5 degrees from the celestial equator. This point on the Earth is known as the Tropic of Cancer.