Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...

Summer in the Northern Hemisphere will be shorter this year than last year by about 15 minutes, according to Timeanddate.com.

You can practically hear the heartbeat of town thumping faster: Summer has taken over. Still riding the pitching waves of ...

July is a busy month with a whole lotta drama — why would we expect anything less as we enter Leo season?! You'll need this ...

June has really been popping off when it comes to astronomical events, having brought us a delicious Strawberry Moon, a ...

Peaceful scenes: Stourhead near Warminster remains a popular place to visit - weather watcher Marciaspictures snapped this ...

In short, the Bay Area buzzed with life. To showcase that same vitality, we started Fogcutter, SFGATE’s weekly column of events. Every week, we send our reporters out into the field to cover local ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

A stunning discovery in southern Turkey is raising new questions about the origins of timekeeping and the early human ...