When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images The equator is the imaginary line that horizontally ...

Humans have built so many dams around the world that the Earth’s poles have wandered away from the planet’s rotational axis, new research suggests. Over the last 200 years, humans have constructed ...

I didn’t feel upside down, says Abigal Bishop, but there were some differences that still made the South Pole feel flipped ...

(CNN) — If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole, revealing that the ...

SpaceX launched four people into space Monday evening on a first-ever human mission to orbit Earth’s polar regions. After liftoff from the U.S., a typical crewed launch flies to the east or northeast.

Fall equinox 2025 arrives on Monday 22. Find out why the first day of autumn still features a little more daylight than ...

From Earth, we always look towards the Sun's equator. This year, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission broke free of this ‘standard’ viewpoint by tilting its orbit to 17° – out of the ecliptic plane where ...