For many kids, the combination of good weather and lack of school obligations makes summertime synonymous with good times. Three solid months of freedom, soaked in the Sun, without adults looking over ...

44 degrees, or about half way between its extremes, and this angle is very slowly decreasing in a cycle that spans about 41,000 years. 5 degrees relative to its orbital plane around the sun, is the ...

The Earth has an axial tilt of about 23.5 degrees, which is vital in shaping our climate and seasons. This video explores the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As the year unfolds, we experience the distinct changes in weather that mark the passage of time: the freshness of Spring, the warmth of Summer, the crispness of Autumn, and the chill ...

The fall equinox is a significant event in any tipped planet's life. Seasons are caused by a planet's tilted axis. Those which orbit the sun standing nearly straight up and down with little to no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun shines above the Earth’s horizon. Perihelion, the point when Earth is closest to the Sun, occurs annually in early January ...

Summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere are both coming to an end. That means the days and nights are becoming roughly equal in length, and the path the Sun traces ...

Spring, summer, fall and winter – the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It’s easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a ...

Here's how it works: The Earth revolves in orbit around the sun over the course of a year. Earth's axis is tilted 23.4 degrees from the plain of its orbit. It's called the axial tilt or obliquity. As ...

FARGO — Our planet Earth is tilted. That is to say, its axis of daily rotation is tilted about 23 and a half degrees from its axis of revolution around the sun. It is this tilt that gives us seasons.

As we soak up this lovely fall weather, we are also looking ahead to temperatures above 80 this week. When we get these warm-ups during the fall, we often get asked "is this normal?" "Are the seasons ...