The fierce winds of a hurricane are known as tropical cyclones in some parts of the world, so you might expect them to sweep across the entire tropics. But there's one area of the tropics where ...

Did you know that a hurricane or tropical storm has never crossed the equator? The reason behind this fascinating phenomenon lies in a meteorological principle related to the rotation of the Earth: ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — After the devastation of Hurricane Helene and now Hurricane Milton hitting Florida, reports have been spreading on social media that hurricanes never cross the equator. This is ...

For decades, scientists assumed that Earth’s magnetosphere had the same charge polarity from pole to equator. That assumption ...

It seems early dinosaurs were not fond of the tropics. For the first 30 million years after dinosaurs appeared, they steered clear of the equator, a fact that has confounded paleontologists. Almost no ...

Living in the tropics — hands down — beats living at the poles. At least that's the consensus of the high number of species crowding near the equator. However, the underlying reason behind this ...

Say your goodbyes to warm weather and hello to sweater season. Fall arrives Thursday. The autumn equinox, when the sun's center crosses the equator, will happen tonight at 9:04 pm EST, marking the ...

There are some strange doings in Ecuador. They built a monument to the equator on the equator, only they put it in the wrong place. It's a few hundred feet south of the actual equator. No one seems to ...

The Congo River is the world's only major river to cross the Equator twice, a rare feat shaped by ancient geological forces.