The summer solstice marks the official start of summer. It brings the longest day and shortest night of the year for the 88 percent of Earth's people who live in the Northern Hemisphere.

Thursday, June 20 is the official first day of northern astronomical summer for 2024 — Summer Solstice — which is ... (princessdlaf/Getty Images) Globes are nearly always tilted to one side ...

with the arrival of the summer solstice. So what is a solstice, exactly? It's the result of Earth's north-south axis being tilted 23.4 degrees toward the sun. This tilt causes different amounts of ...

with the earliest summer solstice in more than two centuries slated for Thursday afternoon. Specifically, it's the earliest ...

Get somewhere rural and look southeast after dark! Tuesday, June 21, 2022: Summer Solstice, five naked-eye planets and a Last Quarter Moon Today it’s the June solstice—summer solstice in the ...

Photographers have taken photos of the annular eclipse - also ... This eclipse coincided with the summer solstice - the northern hemisphere's longest day of the year. Annular eclipses occur ...