An astral animated TED-Ed lesson written by Elise Cutts explains how the tides on Earth are impacted both by the sun and the ...

Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during its inferior conjunction. Though the transit is called an inferior conjunction, don't let the negative ...

Earth's rotation causes day and night, but the revolution (or orbit) of Earth around the sun, combined with the tilt of the Earth's axis, is what causes seasons. "Seasons are caused by the fact ...

The vernal equinox arrives on Thursday, marking the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and the fall in the Southern Hemisphere. On the equator, the sun will be directly overhead at ...

Day and night aren't exactly 12 hours on the ... A solstice is the moment the Earth's tilt toward or away from the sun is at a maximum, according to the National Weather Service.

When the Earth tilts toward the sun, the hemisphere closest to the ... The equinoxes occur when the sun is right above the equator, making day and night equally long. The solstices occur on ...