Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere on June 20 with the summer solstice, the day with the greatest amount of possible daylight and the shortest night.

Summer gets its official start in the Northern Hemisphere with the arrival of the summer solstice. The sun will trace its ...

Learn about day and night with these interactive learning resources for KS1 Science students aged 5-7 from BBC Bitesize.

Regions within the Antarctic Circle enter a period of polar night, during which the Sun doesn’t rise above the horizon at all ...

Five curious health benefits of dark midwinter, according to science. As we reach the shortest day and the longest night, don’t despair, says Professor Miles Richardson.The natural connections ...

Lynne Peeples is an MIT night science journalism fellow. ... which is the pattern your body follows based on a 24-hour day cycle. Peeples is an MIT night science journalism fellow and biostatistician.

The night side is meanwhile hit with hot winds warmed by the star-facing day side. With winds reaching thousands of miles per hour, this process occurs quickly enough to keep WASP-39b's night side ...

The winter solstice — the exact moment when the Sun appears farthest south in the sky — happens at 4:21 a.m. EST on Dec. 21 in 2024.