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

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

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 ...

After years of little snow across the Chicago area, recent record-breaking snowfall and below-freezing temperatures might ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

You may have noticed that meteorologists and climatologists define seasons differently from “regular” or astronomical spring, summer, fall, and winter. So, why do meteorological and astronomical ...