Winter weather has pummeled the U.S. in recent weeks, with the South seeing record-breaking snowfall. But summer could be just a plane ride away. Winter won’t end until late March in the states, but ...

Deanna Hence is an assistant professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This story originally featured on The Conversation. Above the equator, winter officially ...

Every year when the sun moves into cardinal earth sign Capricorn, winter begins in the northern hemisphere and the warm summer season kicks off in the southern hemisphere, below the equator. Winter ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around ...

How does the Earth’s orbit influence our daylight and temperatures? As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis – picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South ...

Earth's axial tilt (23.5 degrees) relative to its orbital plane causes seasonal variations in sunlight intensity and duration across different latitudes, with the most dramatic changes observed at the ...