Peak sunshine has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere — the summer solstice. Friday is the longest day of the year north of ...

Hop on down to the equator, though, and things are different. It still takes Earth the same 24 hours to make a rotation, but this time we are traveling the entire circumference of the planet ...

The World Has Never Seen Anything Like What’s Happening at the Equator Right Now Hurricane Florence is really bad. What’s happening at the equator is much worse.

The Equator is actually several hundred feet to the north, as determined by modern GPS technology that wasn’t available to the earlier surveyors of the region.

Shortest day south of the equator. June 21 is the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere, affecting about 10 percent of the world’s population.