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 ...

The Mercator map has a boundary cut error: one makes a cut of 180 degrees along the meridian of the international date line from pole to pole and unrolls the Earth’s surface, thus putting Hawaii ...

Cobo on the line of the Equator at the giant Quitsato sundial. Photo by Kurt Hollander. Cristóbal Cobo, a deep-voiced outdoorsman in his late 40s and self-taught Ecuadorian astronomer ...

"Every world map is distorted in some respect," Matthew Edney, ... But, when mapping the Earth into a rectangle, the poles are stretched from points into lines the length of the equator.

As well as the equator having lower gravity, Earth's spin is faster there, giving rockets an extra boost when launched from the line. Today, the equator passes through 13 countries. Can you name ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

A file image of how the Earth's spin results in the Coriolis effect. iStock / Getty Images Plus. It was initially believed that storms could not form within 5 degrees latitude of the equator, but ...

Song and Ledania are hosting their second duo exhibition in Tokyo inspired by their global travels as well as their respective ancestral spiritual roots, which ...

We use imaginary lines to help locate where a place is in the world. We use lines of latitude to find out how far north or south a place is. These lines run parallel to the Equator.; There are ...

The equator is also an ideal spot for rocket launches into space. As well as the equator having lower gravity, Earth's spin is faster there, giving rockets an extra boost when launched from the line.