Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

When giant ice sheets that once covered the tropics melted, they produced what paleoclimatologists call a “plumeworld ocean”, ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

A supposedly stable belt of radiation 7000 km above the Earth’s surface may in fact be producing damaging bursts of ...

No hurricane has been known to cross the equator. Rating ... In short, the rotation of the Earth influences winds and surface ocean currents. Circulating air is deflected from a straight pattern ...

A recent study claims that Earth may have once had a ring system. This theory sheds light on the presence of an unusual density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the ...

Enough landmines are buried underground worldwide to circle Earth twice at the equator, but the identification and removal of these explosives is costly and time-consuming. New research could help ...

Once here, the researchers have suggested that the asteroid likely met a brutal end, ripped to shreds and scattered around the equator, leaving Earth with a halo of debris. The remnants of the ...

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.

The answer is not that the equator possesses some magical ability ... So essentially, in simpler terms, the rotation of the earth has an effect on the direction of large masses of water.

During geomagnetic storms, chorus waves occurring close to Earth's geomagnetic equator typically accelerate the particles trapped in the Van Allen belts, boosting radiation levels. But when these ...