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?

The Earth is encircled by an imaginary line known as the equator. Positioned at 0 degrees latitude, it separates the planet into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The equator is one of the five ...

For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption has now been overturned by a discovery that shows the magnetic behavior of ...