The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

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

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 ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

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

The Earth is round, so it does not have a fixed center like a flat surface. However, some countries are closest to important ...

So why is the temperature so different in different places? There is an imaginary circle called the equator that divides the Earth into two parts. The Sun is our heat source here on Earth.

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 ...