Naturally, the same goes for the sunset. Since the winter solstice, the sun has been setting progressively later at a faster ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The first full moon of 2025 — the Wolf Moon — promises a special spectacle. Although traditionally associated with winter in ...

The Chicago area is less than a month into winter, but many residents may be curious on when spring starts later this year.

From then onwards the days become increasingly long leading up to the Summer Solstice, or the June Solstice, and the longest day of the year. During the day, the Northern Hemisphere will have ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Punta del Este is becoming a magnet for foreign money in Uruguay. Health, real estate and airport projects are underway as a ...

Snow isn't just for the mountains, the northern U.S., Europe and Siberia. Here's a sampling of the more bizarre events.

Sulfur dioxide pollution, primarily from unregulated coal production, destroyed the air quality across the northern hemisphere in the 20th Century. However, many scientists view sulfur dioxide as only ...

Zavaritskii volcano in the Kuril Islands was responsible for the mysterious 1831 volcanic eruption that cooled the climate ...

This means that each year, as Earth orbits the sun, there are periods when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and receives more sunlight, resulting in summer, and times when the ...

Now that the Winter Solstice is behind us, our days continue to slowly get longer into January. Daylight will grow until the Summer Solstice in late June.