Summer 2025 officially begins on June 20 with the summer solstice. The summer solstice occurs when the sun reaches its highest and northernmost point, resulting in the longest day of the year.

And this particular half-lit moon arrives at another kind of halfway point too: the Celtic celebration of Beltane, the turning point between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Finding middle ...

I traveled to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska for the chance to enjoy summer solstice and the park’s around-the-clock midnight sun from a scenic sheet of ice. The ...

The weather service counts the seasons by months, grouping March-May for spring, instead of by equinoxes and solstices. Over the last 30 years, the spring season has averaged 11.3 inches of rainfall.

With approval by Equinox Gold shareholders and Calibre securityholders in hand, Calibre will seek a final order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia to approve the Arrangement at a hearing ...

Across three sites, the solar observatories accurately measure not only solstices and equinoxes but also leap years. But they would have been left hidden in the forest if it weren't for two people ...

Of particular interest to astronomers is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure — two rings of ejected material shaped by the gravitational influence of the central stars. Scientists ...

The monument’s placement is no accident—its very location allowed for the tracking of celestial events, like the solstices and equinoxes, which were crucial for agricultural societies.

Daylight will keep increasing until the summer solstice in June ... shortening them. Around the equinoxes in March and September, the tilt is neutral, giving nearly equal day and night across ...