Summer beckons us all year long with the promise ... formerly a cultural astronomer at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The first Midnight Sun Game, held in 1906, began as a bet between ...

Smithsonian Magazine reports that the summer solstice is celebrated in Sweden by dancing around a maypole. In Fairbanks, Alaska, people watch a baseball game under the midnight sun. In Iceland ...

Thanks to the tilt of the Earth, the nights of the Scandinavian summer are lit by the golden light from the midnight sun. Depending on how north you travel, the sun doesn’t set for weeks or even ...

The Arctic summer presents a magical phenomenon where the sun never sets, creating endless opportunities for unique adventures under perpetual daylight. From late May through July, the midnight ...

‘They tend to rest for long periods at night,’ Knut-Sverre explains. As midnight approached, the low summer Sun struck the north-facing window, sharpening the birds’ silhouettes and giving him the ...

Known as the Land of the Midnight Sun, Fairbanks experiences extended daylight in the summer with 19 hours of sunshine on the summer solstice (which usually occurs between June 20 and June 22).