With all those frigid temperatures, a few snow squalls and the recent ice storm, it has certainly felt like winter here in New Jersey and across much of the northern United States. But as you probably ...

Christmas has come early for stargazers in the Northern Hemisphere, who will be treated to two major cosmic events this weekend. Winter officially kicks off on calendars Saturday — a day sacred to ...

Today marks the 2019 winter solstice, the beginning of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere. It also marks the shortest day — and the longest night — of the year. The moment of the winter ...

For six months now, the days have grown shorter and the nights have grown longer in the Northern Hemisphere – but that’s about to reverse itself. Winter solstice, the shortest day of 2019, will be ...

As we enter March, we are exiting what meteorologists say was the sixth warmest winter on record for central Pennsylvania. And according to the National Weather Service at State College, that trend ...

THE MOST commonly cited risks of climate change are natural disasters: fiercer wildfires and hurricanes, bigger floods and longer droughts. But one of the most striking recent effects of global ...