Spring officially begins today (March 20) with the vernal equinox, bringing longer days and warmer temperatures to the ...

Interestingly, Earth is closest to the Sun at the start of every January, which coincides with winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Like every other year, in 2024, the Earth will reach the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

Winter is coming ... Unable to view our graphics? Click here to see them. Day and night aren't exactly 12 hours on the day of the equinox because the Earth's atmosphere refracts, or bends ...

Every six months, the equinox splits Earth's day almost in half ... Photograph by MASSOUD HOSSAINI / AFP, Getty Images View of the sun behind the Temple of the Seven Dolls in the Mayan ...

Themes: The summer and winter solstices; the seasons and the Earth’s orbit around the sun; celebrations of the solstices around the world, including at Stonehenge; the beauty of the natural world.

Up here on the International Space Station I don’t get affected by the seasons but on Earth the seasons are always changing: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. What causes the seasons to change?

The findings, which are published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, reveal that the cluster of extreme UK winter storms was connected to stronger winds in the Arctic stratosphere ...