This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Spring, summer, fall and winter–the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It’s easy to take this cycle ...

Earth's Tilted Dance Through Space 44 degrees, or about half way between its extremes, and this angle is very slowly ...

You may have noticed that meteorologists and climatologists define seasons differently from “regular” or astronomical spring, summer, fall, and winter. So, why do meteorological and astronomical ...

Earth's regular seasons are primarily due to its axial tilt (obliquity) of approximately 23 degrees, causing variations in sunlight intensity across the hemispheres throughout its orbit. This ...

FARGO — Our planet Earth is tilted. That is to say, its axis of daily rotation is tilted about 23 and a half degrees from its axis of revolution around the sun. It is this tilt that gives us seasons.