New research reveals a surprising truth about Earth’s seasons—spring, summer, fall, and winter are far more out of sync ...

Satellite data shows Earth’s seasons do not follow the same timing worldwide. A new study maps how local ecosystems experience spring, summer, autumn, and winter differently ...

On Sunday, Dec. 21, at exactly 10:03 a.m. EST, the Northern Hemisphere's astronomical winter officially begins with the ...

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. Earth's seasonal cycles can vary dramatically across short distances, even at the ...

The winter solstice can fall on any day between Dec. 20 and 23, depending on the year, but the 21st and 22nd are the most ...

Christmas Day will be quite warm across the U.S. only days after the winter solstice. Here is an explanation of why winter ...

On the first Sunday of November, when the majority of the United States set their clocks an hour earlier, the resulting ...

Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. It’s ...

For winter, the start date usually falls on December 21 or 22, but every so often, it can sneak in as early as the 20th or as ...

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.

Scientists have discovered something remarkable about our planet: the familiar cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have watched our planet's seasons from space and discovered that spring, summer, winter, and fall are surprisingly out of sync. Just because two ...