Let's welcome Spring with the Vernal Equinox. Vernal means spring. This week marks the vernal equinox -- the beginning of ...

So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of sunlight to reach different regions of ...

Read Illustration showing how Earth's tilt leads to the Northern and Southern Hemispheres receiving changing amounts of ...

A solstice — derived from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still"), because the seasonal movement of the Sun's daily path (as seen from Earth) appears to "stand still" at a northern ...

Jacque Schrag/Axios Seattle's dark winter days are finally giving way to more light. The big picture: The city will gain almost four hours of daily sunlight between the spring equinox Thursday and ...

Two things drive this all-important seasonal shuffle: Earth's tilted axis and the planet's orbit around the sun. How the summer solstice works The summer solstice is the point when the sun will ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, the December solstice is the year’s day of least sunlight, when the sun takes its lowest, shortest path across the sky. North of the Arctic Circle, it is the midpoint ...

Welcome, vernal equinox. In 2025, the first day of spring is Thursday at 4:01 a.m. Central time. What Is the Spring Equinox?

The winter solstice came on Monday at 5:02 a.m. ET ... the degree to which the planet is tilted relative to the sun. The axis around which the Earth spins isn't straight up and down — it's ...

What is the solstice? The solstices mark the ... A solar eclipse happens when the moon’s path crosses in between the Earth and the sun, blocking out the sun’s light. In a partial eclipse ...

When the North Pole is tilted towards the sun, it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere. In December, the winter solstice marks the exact moment the Northern Hemisphere is tilted the furthest away ...

The exact moment of the winter solstice varies from year to year due to a slight misalignment between the Gregorian calendar and the actual rate of the Earth’s rotation around the sun.