The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

Shared on social media on Thursday, the image (top) shows Earth as a blaze of streaking light, an effect created by using ...

We've made it through Daylight Saving Time only to be plunged into solar winter, i.e., the quarter of the year with the ...

Africa's Sahara Desert may be considered a vast expanse of barren sand with limited vegetation, an extreme environment for ...

But in a broader context, there’s escapism too in all this back-to-nature rhetoric; as if moving to some remote forest to escape modern society (which Druehyld did) and playing witch means anything ...

The sweep of the Milky Way arcs from the southwest horizon, deepening at nightfall, close to 7:30 p.m. Find summer stars and ...

Daylight hours are getting shorter as the Northern Hemisphere moves closer to the winter solstice. Friday, Oct. 25, Downtown ...

Habes has an article which describes the method adopted by Eratosthenes for measuring the circumference of the earth. He knew that the sun threw no shadow at the summer solstice at Syene (the ...

For the next three months, it will duly become ever darker until we reach winter solstice. Meanwhile, the longest day next year, also known as the summer solstice, can be enjoyed on June 21.

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...

Once upon a time, here in the United States, we taxed the rich. Significantly. Today, by contrast, we’re actively enhancing their fortunes. Including the biggest personal fortune of them all, the ...