As February begins, Venus appears low in the western evening sky. The brilliant planet stands nearly 15° high an hour after ...

John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in ...

A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our ...

The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere occurs on June 20, 2025, at 1:41 p.m. EDT (0241 GMT on June 21), and the summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere occurs on Dec. 21, 2025 ...

Well I’m on the half that’s above the Equator, which is called the Northern Hemisphere and he lives on the half that’s below the Equator, which is the Southern Hemisphere. But I also need to ...

Research finds dinosaurs likely evolved near equator, not Southern Hemisphere New findings suggest the origins of dinosaurs ...

Here’s how it works. The next Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere will occur on Dec. 21, 2025, and the next Winter Solstice for the Southern Hemisphere will occur on June 21, 2025.

What might Messier have added if he wanted a more complete list that extended to the far southern sky? To address this question, English astronomy popularizer Sir Patrick Moore (1923–2012 ...