A strip of cool water stretches west from South America along the equator, helping set the pace for some of the planet’s most ...

Earth’s elliptical path around the Sun does more than keep the planet in a stable orbit. Because that path is not a perfect ...

Friday brought us what we call “the first day of spring.” But announcing spring is an arbitrary declaration, as we saw by last week’s weather. The latest date I’ve seen snow flurries in our local ...

Friday, March 20, at 9:46 a.m. C.D.T., astronomical spring begins as Friday is the spring equinox. This means the Sun is ...

METEOROLOGIST DALENCIA JENKINS JOINS US NOW TO EXPLAIN. TELL US WHAT DOES MATTER. YEAH, IT’S REALLY THE TILT. AND THAT CREATES KIND OF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN. SO WE’LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN A SECOND. BUT ...

Recently, we looked at insolation and the solar constant, and in this article, we are going to look at global net radiation and seasons.

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 ...