Learn how we know the Earth is round, and the science behind the shape of our gravitational field.

Ever wonder how fast you’re spinning around the imaginary rod connecting the North and South Poles? Wonder no more. By finding your location on this map and searching for where your line of latitude ...

When you see a globe or other representation of Earth, it usually is shown as a perfect sphere, so many people may think that it is. The Earth, though, is what we call an Oblate Spheroid. It is a ...

Once a month, Life & Arts taps into the many questions received and answered by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. A: As shown by countless photographs from space, Earth is appropriately ...

Earth is an oblate spheroid, which means its surface curves most at the equator. This means ancient continents that moved from lower to higher latitudes would no longer be shaped to “fit” the ...

Good advice from the 70s progressive band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There ...

I disagree with Rebecca Stillwell and Bob Wynhausen’s letters in the Oct. 16 newspaper. Rebecca Stillwell says she is waiting for proof that mail-in voting is fraudulent, and Bob Wynhausen says there ...