On Sunday, Dec. 21, at exactly 10:03 a.m. EST, the Northern Hemisphere's astronomical winter officially begins with the ...
Sunday marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, signaling the start of astronomical winter ...
The solstices mark the times when the Earth's tilt toward or away from the sun is at its maximum. This means the hemispheres ...
In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers suggest that Earth once had a giant, ...
Oceans hiding within the crusts of distant moons are tantalizing targets for scientists looking for life beyond Earth ...
While the shortest day of the year is on December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere ...
In recent years, a major ocean current changed its path in two crucial ways. Now parts of the sea are rising, other parts are falling, ocean temperatures are breaking records — and Japan’s iconic ...
The winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night in the Northern Hemisphere. Here’s why it happens, what it means ...
But in a social media post announcing the move late on Tuesday, Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and ...
Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...
Although the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice typically occurs between December 20 and 23, this year's solstice takes ...
California gains three seconds of daylight the day after the winter solstice, according to Time and Date. By the end of ...