Recent scientific findings have revealed a startling shift in our planet’s equilibrium. The Earth’s axis has tilted by an ...

Earth's axis — the invisible line around which it spins — is bookended by the north and south poles. The axis tilts, and thus the pole shift, depending on how weight is distributed across Earth's ...

Earth’s spin is not as steady as it looks. As ice melts and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers to the surface, the ...

The axis of the Earth intersects the planet at the magnetic pole, and Earth's poles are known to wander. They can even flip. There are various possible reasons, which we don't fully understand, why ...

With its long days just itching to be spent by water doing nothing, summer really can be an enchanting season. As Jenny Han wrote in the young adult novel “The Summer I Turned Pretty”: “Everything ...

The most interesting thing in the sky for me last month was seeing the most intense hailstorm with the largest hail I have seen since moving to Durango over twenty-five years ago. I can assure you ...

The 2022 winter solstice happens on Wednesday 21 December at 4:48 p.m. ET. It is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere but the summer solstice in the southern. This is due to Earth's tilted ...

Happy fall. Today we're going to refresh what exactly that means when you're talking about seasons and in the Earth you're talking about the Earth's tilt on its axis. So the past few months for those ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Earth has seasons due to the tilt of Earth's axis, which is a line through the south to north pole. The Earth's axis tilts towards and away from the Sun's rays as it travels in a ...

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri (near) ...

The winter solstice – which marks the beginning of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere – is Tuesday. The solstice occurs at the same instant everywhere on Earth. The Earth's tilted axis ...