All about the science and celebration of the Summer Solstice, plus, for this year, a unique oddity for parts of Canada!

When is the first day of summer? Find out all the facts about the longest day of the year! When is the first day of summer in ...

June’s full moon, nicknamed the strawberry moon, will shine brightly on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The moon will be ...

It's part of Northern Alaska that ... daylight as the sun instead circles the horizon. Midnight sun occurs because of the Northern Hemisphere's tilt toward the sun during the late spring and summer, ...

(That’s why it stays dark for so long each day during the winter in places such as Scandinavia and Alaska.) But since the winter solstice ... the sun to appear above the horizon when the actual ...

The winter solstice, famously the shortest day of the year, is nearly three weeks behind us. So why has the sun been rising later than it did on Dec. 21? Like much of our day and night cycles ...

The winter solstice is the day each year that has the shortest period of daylight between sunrise and sunset, and therefore the longest night. It happens when the sun is directly above the Tropic ...

Early Saturday morning, the occurrence of the 2024 winter solstice marked the astronomical start of winter, and it's been greeted with appropriately frigid temperatures. The event also marks the ...

Winter solstice ... where the sun will rise at 9:18 a.m. and set at 3:12 p.m., resulting in a little under six hours of anemic daylight. Sun lamp, anyone? Residents of Nome, Alaska, will be ...

People soak up the sun on deck chairs ... Saturday is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Benjamin Liss / dpa/AFP via Getty Images Saturday is the winter ...