June and July are the months when the Northern Hemisphere receives the most sunlight due to the Earth's tilt on its axis.

These regions are especially important because their position on the globe makes them more likely to influence Earth’s tilt when water is removed from underground. Right now, the slight shift in ...

"The distinct transition between seasons is becoming increasingly muddled," Cradock-Henry said. Key development stages of ...

Bengaluru anticipates Zero Shadow Day on April 24. The sun will be directly overhead. Vertical objects will cast no shadow.

The effect known as 'Russell-McPherron' is down to the alignment of the Sun and Earth around the spring and autumn equinox and means that you are twice as likely to see the aurora in spring and autumn ...

Climate change is causing a significant redistribution of mass on Earth due to melting ice sheets, leading to a shift in the planet's geographic poles. By 2100, the North Pole could move westward ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s rotation period. This technique revealed that it completes a rotation 28 ...

We experience seasons thanks to Earth's tilted axis. Because of the tilt, as Earth orbits the sun, its north and south poles sit at an angle rather than straight up and down. As NIWA explains on ...