On Thursday, the Earth’s northern and southern hemispheres will receive equal amounts of daylight. The equinox also marks the ...

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he wants to build a chocolate factory. One problem: ...

Insolation rises sharply from approximately 50 joules at the poles to 275 joules at the equator. Terrestrial radiation ... latitudes colder and colder. The diagram below tells us that tropical ...

The Winter Circle (or Winter Hexagon) isn’t a constellation. It is an asterism, made of bright stars in the winter evening ...

13 countries are lying on the equator, with 3 continents, and 3 major waterbodies included.

The UK weather agency issues regular space weather forecasts for both the northern and southern hemisphere. For the northern hemisphere, which is the half of the Earth that lies north of the equator, ...

For the northern hemisphere, which is the half of the Earth that lies north of the equator, a "coronal mass ejection" is expected to arrive tonight. The prediction reads: "This will likely bring ...

cold waters where they feed to warm shores near the equator where they mate and give birth. Much of this is in the form of urine—though sloughed skin, carcasses, calf feces, and placentas also ...