At the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice the upper half of the Earth is at its furthest lean away from the sun — leading to the shortest day and longest night of the year. The winter solstice ...
The summer solstice, marking the Sun's northernmost point and the official start of summer, precedes the season's hottest temperatures by weeks or months due to the non-instantaneous thermal response ...
There will be 13 full moons, several meteor showers and the last lunar eclipse until late 2028 in the sky in 2026. Here's how ...
Although Earth’s two hemispheres lie on opposite sides of the planet and differ in many ways, they share a peculiar commonality—or at least they used to. The Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...
Scientists outline the scientific and technical case for building a northern-hemisphere 30-meter telescope at La Palma to support time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy.